National Weather Service issues reports on tornado outbreak, Friday, April 26

BEATRICE – The National Weather Service has issued survey team information on ten tornadoes tracked last Friday…..five of them that rated as EF-3. 

One of the strongest was a tornado that was on the ground for 8.6 miles from northeast Lincoln to north of Waverly…that did damage to a manufacturing building and overturned rail cars. 

 

Another EF-3 developed in western Douglas County and had a path length of 31.2 miles….wind speeds up to 165 miles-per-hour.  It was one mile wide.  

Another strong tornado developed at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield moving northeast to near Crescent, Iowa….just over 16 miles….with wind speeds up to 152 miles-per-hour.

 

An EF-3 traveled over 13 miles from southwest Pottawattamie County, before dissipating near McClelland, Iowa…..with wind speeds up to 145-miles-per-hour.

The longest and apparently most powerful tornado was an EF-3 that traveled for nearly 41-miles from east of McClelland through the east part of Minden, Iowa, to the west of Harlan before dissipating just south of the Shelby-Crawford County line.   It packed wind speeds of up to 160-miles-per-hour and was estimated to be 1,700 yards wide at one point…..about 17 football fields.

Of the ten tornadoes evaluated so far, one rated as an EF-2 from southeast Greeley County to rural Boone County in Nebraska.  It had wind speeds up to 160-miles-per-hour and traveled 27.5 miles.