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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 ...
Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska 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 ...
Destructive tornadoes ripped through parts of Nebraska, levelling homes and businesses in the suburbs of Omaha – while millions of people in the central United States warned that more severe ...
The tornadoes in Grand Island, Nebraska killed five, injured 200, and caused an estimated more than $285 million ($1.02 billion 2022 USD) in damage. In Nebraska, tornado warnings allowed people to get to safety in time, which prevented a higher death toll. The South Locust Street area in Grand Island was hardest hit, struck by the fifth tornado ...
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.
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 ...
It issued tornado watches for parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. Large hail also was possible. Some schools canceled proms because of the forecasts.
The tornado continued to move northeast, destroying a barn with low-end EF2 damage before dissipating northwest of Dewey. [16] The tornado traveled 12.21 miles (19.65 km), lasted 29 minutes, caused no injuries or fatalities, inflicted $2.25 million (2014 USD) in damages, and had a maximum wind speed of 170 mph (270 km/h). [15] [1]