Severe Thunderstorm Warning for York and Polk Counties in Nebraska
This alert is no longer in effect.
NOAA issued it on August 18, 2026, 5 days ago. Warnings of this kind stay in effect for hours to a few days, so this page is a historical record of what was issued, not a current warning. For conditions where you are right now, check weather.gov (US), weather.gc.ca (Canada), the Met Office (UK), or the Bureau of Meteorology (Australia).
Areazine synthesizes this NWS weather alert directly from NOAA's official public data feed. See our methodology for full source attribution and refresh cadence.
NWS Hastings NE has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for northern York County and southeastern Polk County until 2:00 AM CDT on August 18, 2026.
Read this weather record in 30 seconds
- Record type
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning
- Affected area
- East Central Nebraska
- Issued
- August 18, 2026
- Issuing authority
- NWS Hastings NE
Storm notices can cover different combinations of wind, hail, lightning, and rainfall. Use the original notice for the hazards and boundaries attached to this specific record.
Record status: historical. It was issued 5 days ago; use the issuing agency's live warning service for current conditions in East Central Nebraska.
Alert Details
Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued by NWS Hastings NE (NOAA). Effective from August 18, 2026 at 1:25 AM CDT until August 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM CDT.
Affected Areas
Northern York County in east central Nebraska and southeastern Polk County in east central Nebraska. The storm was located near Benedict, or 10 miles northeast of York, and will be near Gresham around 1:30 AM CDT. This includes Interstate 80 between mile markers 358 and 365.
What You Should Do
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
Expected Conditions
At 1:25 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Benedict moving southeast at 55 mph. Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail (0.75 inch). Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Timeline
The warning is effective from 1:25 AM CDT to 2:00 AM CDT on August 18, 2026.
Original source: NOAA Official Notice ↗
Related Weather Alerts
All Weather Alerts →Nationwide notices with similar length or severity timing 8
Two Areazine-derived peer sets for this NWS weather alert: nearest notices by body length and by same severity near the same agency date. Peers come from other categories so they are not the same-feed Related list above.
Similar body length
Nearest notices by article body length (876 characters here).
Similar severity timing
Same severity (high) notices issued closest in time to August 18, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this NWS weather alert.