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RED CLOUD, Neb. (KSNB) - Rain and powerful winds hit the town of Red Cloud last night causing quite the mess, and that storm knocked out power for most of the town. Crews were out just after midnight on Thursday morning starting to get power back on for residents, and once the sun came up residents saw massive damage to trees and power lines, with even collapsed sheds and onings.

LINCOLN — Nebraskans took to the country roads and other dark places on Friday and Saturday nights in hopes of capturing a rare display of the northern lights visible much farther south than normal. The stream of traffic Saturday night from Lincoln northward to Branched Oak Lake reminded some...

George Washington's plans to convert the Smith Center pool into a new basketball facility fell through thanks to a divine act of structural integrity. Archive photo via GW Sports. In a turn of events, George Washington aquatic sports teams will return to their Smith Center pool for the foreseeable future...

WEBSTER COUNTY, Neb. — Damage assessments reveal that Monday night's tornado caused damage in parts of Nebraska. The National Weather Service in Hastings reported that the tornadoes, which affected Nebraska and five other states—including Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Tennessee—on Monday, May 6, caused minor damage southeast of Cowles.

HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) - It was eight years ago on this very day when the 2016 severe weather season got started with large hail and a tornado over north central Kansas and South Central Nebraska. Maybe you remember that Sunday in April or 2016 when an upper level low storm system impacted the region producing a surface cold front that moved eastward across the area. The ingredients were in place allowing for storms to develop along and ahead of the front that afternoon moving east through the evening. The majority of the storms impacted Jewell and Mitchell counties in Kansas into Nuckolls and Thayer counties in Nebraska. A couple of supercells took front and center stage for this event with one producing a tornado in Nuckolls county and a second cell producing large hail in Jewell county before traveling northeast and dropping a twister in Republic county. The storm that affected Nuckolls county produced a textbook tornado that touched down near Highway 136 northwest of Superior, Nebraska and tracked southeast a few miles before lifting northwest of Superior. This radar image shows strong rotation and radar reflectivity at about the time the tornado touched down. The EF-1 rated tornado with an estimated maximum wind speed of 100 miles per hour carved a 2.8 mile path with a maximum width of 300 yards. This is a good reminder to be prepared as we head into the peak months of tornado season.