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Another Round of Storms Friday Night, Drier This Weekend
Sunshine is back out for Friday. It will be a little warmer, with highs in the low 70s, and rain holding off for most of the day. However, another round of rain and storms arrives after 10 p.m. in eastern Nebraska from the west... and will push into Omaha closer to midnight. Storms then continue through western Iowa and northwest Missouri overnight. While more heavy rain is likely for most cities, there isn't much of a concern for anything severe.
“Hot Dogs Saved My Life” – Nebraska Man Was At Gas Station Getting Hot Dogs When Tornado Leveled His Home
Everything happens for a reason. There's always an eerie story about someone's close call, and how they would have had a brush with death if they wouldn't have stopped for coffee, or if they wouldn't have left their wallet at home. And here we have another example from this past weekend when a violent supercell moved through Nebraska. Storm surveys have shown that an EF-3 tornado moved across the southern part of the state during the night, which is often the most dangerous time for storms to hit. The violent storm was fatal, claiming the life of five people, and it could...
2024 tornado outbreak: Storms carry Nebraska family’s photo 70 miles to Iowa field
BLAIR, Neb. (WOWT) - With so many personal effects scattered in the wind during last Friday’s tornado outbreak, it’s a wonder that anything found is still recognizable. Five days into the clean-up and the surroundings already look less like a mess. But the questions don’t get any easier when you’ve lost everything.
'Hold on': Watch as train is caught in path of Nebraska EF-3 tornado
A train conductor was caught in the direct path of an EF-3 tornado in Nebraska, part of a severe weather outbreak over the weekend responsible for more than 100 tornadoes across the Plains and Midwest.
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