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Throughout the afternoon hours of April 26, 2024, a large, violent, and destructive tornado impacted parts of the communities of Waterloo, Elkhorn, Bennington, and Blair, Nebraska, injuring four people. [2] The tornado was the first of two EF4 tornadoes during the tornado outbreak of April 25–28, 2024.
Satellite image of the storm system responsible for the tornado outbreak that occurred on April 25–28, 2024. On April 20, 2024, the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) first delineated a severe weather risk for April 25–26, highlighting a zone extending from the Central Great Plains northeastward to the Midwestern U.S.
A tornado watch has been issued for parts of western Oklahoma and northwest Texas until 1 p.m. Saturday, with the potential for tennis ball-sized hail and winds reaching up to 70 mph, per CNN.
Other areas like Waterloo and Bennington similarly faced severe and expansive destruction. Three people were injured in Lancaster County after a tornado hit an industrial building causing it to ...
Bennington was originally called Bunz Town, and under the latter name was founded in the 1880s when the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad was extended to that point. [3] The present name is after the town of Bennington, Vermont. [4] Bennington was struck by an EF4 tornado on April 26, 2024, severely damaging 60 to 65 homes. [5]
Two brothers say they “took off” a couple of times as a tornado tore their home apart in Nebraska while they searched for their dog, which was later found alive under the rubble.. Roger ...
Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska and Iowa on Friday, but the most destructive storm moved from a largely rural area into suburbs northwest of Omaha, a city of 485,000 people. Photos on social media showed the small city of Minden, Iowa, about 30 miles (48.3 kilometers) northeast of Omaha also sustained heavy damage.
Devastating tornadoes tore across parts of eastern Nebraska and northeast Texas Friday as a multi-day severe thunderstorm event ramped up in the central United States, injuring at least three people.