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Part of the Tornado outbreak of April 25–28, 2024 and Tornadoes of 2024 In the afternoon hours of April 26, 2024, a large and violent tornado moved through the Omaha metro , striking the communities of Waterloo , Elkhorn , Bennington , and Blair in Nebraska , resulting in four injuries. [ 2 ]
Satellite image of the storm system responsible for the tornado outbreak that occurred on April 25–28, 2024. On April 20, 2024, the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) first delineated a severe weather risk for April 25–26, highlighting a zone extending from the Central Great Plains northeastward to the Midwestern U.S.
In the United States, the year started off somewhat slow with a below average number of tornadoes through the first three months. However, the El Niño pattern that was in place during that period weakened in April; the pattern shift caused the more traditional Tornado Alley zone to rapidly become extremely favorable for tornado outbreaks, and several large outbreaks occurred in late spring.
The majority of tornadoes in 2024 have touched down in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Ohio has also experienced a surge in tornadoes, with 54 reports so far. Preliminary tornado ...
April 27, 2024 at 9:26 AM. A series of tornadoes hit Nebraska and Iowa on Friday, leveling homes and wreaking havoc in the Midwest. Elkhorn, a neighborhood of Omaha, was most severely impacted ...
This long-tracked, high-end EF3 tornado paralleled I-69 along its path, striking some of the same areas affected by the 2021 Western Kentucky tornado. [101] It touched down at 8:01 PM (00:01 UTC) in Lyon County, Kentucky , just northeast of Eddyville and moved eastward across US 641 at high-end EF1 intensity, snapping trees, damaging a home ...
A graphic from AccuWeather depicting the number of tornadoes each state has seen so far in 2024. Following Iowa is Kansas at 50, Nebraska at 44, Texas and Ohio at 43, and Oklahoma and Illinois at 40.
A high-end EF1 tornado tracked northeast, impacting several farms and damaging trees and damaging or destroying outbuildings along its path. This tornado crossed paths of a tornado damage path from an hour earlier. [64] EF2 NNW of Kent to Northern Creston: Adams, Union: IA