AccuWeather's Tony Laubach breaks down the range of severe weather that marked the evening of April 17 across Nebraska and Iowa.
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00:00Well, after multiple weeks of severe weather across the southeast, we saw that severe weather threat shift back into the central Great Plains into the more traditional tornado alley kicking off on Thursday with the day we expected big hail to be the main threat. And well, big hail was certainly a big threat.
00:15Hail sizes ranged from golf ball to softball sized hail with mainly two supercells that formed in eastern Nebraska during the day. On Thursday, the northern cell just to the west of Fremont, prompting a couple of tornadoes, early land spout type tornadoes with this storm before it became more of a southwest U.S. style hubboob, a big wall of dust blowing into the city of Fremont. They also saw very damaging hail with that storm as it rolled through. That storm would later produce
00:45a tornado on the north side of Omaha. A second storm to the south of Omaha producing quite the lightning show is across I-29 into Iowa and dropped this very large tornado just after sunset outside of the town of Tabor. This one prompting a tornado emergency as that storm moved off to the east into the early overnight hours. National Weather Service Forecast Office here in Omaha was out taking surveys on Friday to survey the damage and on those storms, particularly the tornadoes on those storms, the strongest of those tornadoes.
01:15The one on the north side of the one on the north side of Omaha rated EF3. Unfortunately, that severe weather threat expected to continue through the Easter weekend starting today and working its way into Sunday before things start to quiet down heading into early next week. Reporting for AccuWeather in Omaha, Nebraska, I'm meteorologist Tony Lawback.