A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday afternoon. (AP video by Margery Beck)
1:11 PM EDT April 27, 2024OMAHA, Neb. — Residents began sifting through the rubble Saturday after aplowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, demolishing homes and businesses as it moved for miles through farmland and into subdivisions.
Photos on social media also showed heavy damage in the small town of Minden, Iowa, about 30 miles northeast of Omaha. The forecast for Saturday was ominous. The National Weather Service issued tornado watches early Saturday for northwestern Texas and across western Oklahoma. In one area of Elkhorn, dozens of newly built, large homes were damaged. At least six were wrecked, including one that was leveled, while others had their top halves ripped off. Dozens of emergency vehicles responded to the area.
“Was it one long track tornado or was it several tornadoes?” Kern of the National Weather Service asked.
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