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The Nebraska governor's office estimated a damage toll of $150–200 million (1975 USD; equivalent to $0.8–1.1 billion in 2023), making the tornado the costliest tornado in U.S. history and the costliest natural disaster in Nebraska history at the time. [12]
Here it is estimated that the tornado reached F3 strength. After passing just northwest of Clatonia, the tornado became violent and moved through Hallam at 8:35 pm CDT, where damage reached high-end F4 in intensity. At Hallam, the tornado was a record-breaking 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide, making it the widest tornado ever recorded at the time.
Tornado outbreak sequence of June 20–23, 1957; May 1960 tornado outbreak sequence; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 14–31, 1962; 1964 Central Nebraska tornado; Early May 1965 tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 1966; Tornado outbreak of August 6, 1969; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 10–16, 1970; 1975 Omaha tornado outbreak
Tied with the 2011 Super Outbreak for fourth-deadliest US tornado outbreak. Produced numerous violent tornadoes in the Southern United States and Great Plains, including an F5 tornado in Nebraska. One long-track tornado killed 143 people alone in Louisiana and Mississippi. See, e.g., Wilmer, Louisiana. (≥34 significant, ≥6 violent, ≥13 ...
The tornadoes in Grand Island, Nebraska killed five, injured 200, and caused an estimated more than $285 million ($1.02 billion 2022 USD) in damage. In Nebraska, tornado warnings allowed people to get to safety in time, which prevented a higher death toll. The South Locust Street area in Grand Island was hardest hit, struck by the fifth tornado ...
As the 136mph tornado ripped through ... home was completely destroyed as a tornado swept through Elkhorn, Nebraska (CNN) ... if it’s the scariest thing or the worst thing that’s ever happened ...
Destructive tornadoes ripped through parts of Nebraska, levelling homes and businesses in the suburbs of Omaha – while millions of people in the central United States warned that more severe ...
The deadliest tornado of the day was a violent tornado, retroactively rated F4 on the present-day Fujita scale, [note 3] that grew to 1 ⁄ 4 mile (440 yd) in width as it passed through northern Omaha, Nebraska, killing at least 94 people in the city proper and three in rural areas