Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A series of tornadoes hit Nebraska and Iowa on Friday, leveling homes and wreaking havoc in the Midwest. Elkhorn, a neighborhood of Omaha, was most severely impacted, with hundreds of homes ...
The 2024 Elkhorn–Blair tornado was a large, violent, and destructive EF4 tornado that caused major damage to parts of the communities of Waterloo, Elkhorn, Bennington, and Blair, Nebraska in the afternoon hours of April 26, 2024, injuring four people. [2] The tornado was the first of two EF4 tornadoes during the tornado outbreak of April 25 ...
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.
Elkhorn, a town less than 10 miles from Omaha, sustained some of the most severe damage with many homes flattened. Two people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
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.
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]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us