Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska and a destructive storm moved from a largely rural area into the Omaha area.
A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska , on Friday, damaging hundreds of homes and other structures as it tore for miles along farmland and into subdivisions. Some injuries were reported but there were no immediate reports that anyone was killed.Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska and Iowa, but the most destructive storm moved from a largely rural area into suburbs northwest of Omaha, a city of 485,000 people.
She said the agency planned to send out multiple crews over the next several days to determine the number of tornadoes and their strength, and that it could take up to two weeks to finish the evaluation.'Some appeared to be violent tornadoes,' she continued. 'There were tornadoes in different areas. And so it's like forensic meteorology, we call it, like piecing together, all the damage indicators.
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