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Outlooks suggest heightened severe weather continuing through the rest of May and into the first week or two of June.
The warmest days of the week are here, Tuesday and Wednesday. Yet Wednesday night, storms tracking through northern Nebraska could also threaten severe weather.
At 7:41 p.m. on Thursday, the National Weather Service issued an updated tornado watch in effect until Friday at midnight. The watch is for Omaha Area, Beatrice Area and Lincoln Area as well as ...
On the afternoon of May 21, 2024, a tornado tore across Iowa. It formed in the state’s heartland, gray and wide above the ...
In today’s modern rate, it would have been about a billion dollars worth of damage. At the time, it was the costliest tornado in history. Now it’s the Joplin tornado, which caused $3 billion worth of ...
Forecasts during severe weather last month in Nebraska helped to clarify concerns ... Independent meteorologists said the 7 p ...
Damage from the tornado was estimated to be anywhere between $250 and $500 million, with nearly 300 homes completely ...
Like Pearl Harbor or 9/11, Omahans of certain age remember where they were when an EF-4 tornado struck the heart of the city ...
With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight ...
Regular readers of this blog---all 14 of you—recall my recollections of this disaster in previous blogs. But, a half-century ...
The Westgate neighborhood will hold an event Tuesday at Pipal Park on the 50th anniversary of the 1975 tornado that ravaged ...
Seeing the public safety need for weather readings, U.S. Rep. Mike Flood helped bring back the Omaha/Valley National Weather ...