Storms across Nebraska, Iowa...early Friday morning

BEATRICE – South-central Nebraska experienced severe thunderstorm wind gusts in the range of 60-to-70 miles-per-hour, early Friday, as a line of thunderstorms crossing Nebraska and Iowa moved at 50-miles-per-hour across the states.

A 75-mile-per-hour gust was clocked just east of Edgar and emergency management reported damage to some eight-inch diameter tree limbs in the area. Closer to Omaha…a storm gust of 77-miles-per-hour was reported southeast of Papillion.

At 2:20 this morning, an observer reported a 68-mile-per-hour gust four miles south of Cortland.  Tree limbs were broken and some minor roof damage was reported two-miles southeast of Sterling.

Some tornado sightings were reported in Nebraska near Scribner, Dodge and Nickerson, just before two a.m.  It wasn’t immediately known if there was any damage or injuries.

Thursday night in southwest and western Nebraska, there were at least ten reported sightings of tornadoes.  One tornado near Trenton took down trees and power poles and ripped the roof off a football field grandstand, just west of town….just before 9 p.m., central time.

Strong thunderstorm wind gusts overturned a semitrailer truck at an Interstate 29 southbound rest area…northwest of Pacific Junction, Iowa.

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