Is everyone okay? No major damage here in Hastings from tonight's storms, but Pauline (a little town 12 miles south) got smacked around by a tornado. Driving through on a highway known as Showboat Road, we saw a smashed grain bin on the shoulder, as well as downed trees, twisted signs, and mangled irrigation pipes.
I wasn't able to capture many storm structure photos from here, but I've uploaded the two best ones into my album. The "Juice" picture shows moisture rushing east-southeast toward the monster squall line (the dark sky in the background). I've never seen a thunderstorm as electrically active as this one. I couldn't count all the cloud-to-cloud flashes. By a conservative estimate, I'm guessing 12-20 per second!
Scary. Hope everyone is alright.
I wasn't able to capture many storm structure photos from here, but I've uploaded the two best ones into my album. The "Juice" picture shows moisture rushing east-southeast toward the monster squall line (the dark sky in the background). I've never seen a thunderstorm as electrically active as this one. I couldn't count all the cloud-to-cloud flashes. By a conservative estimate, I'm guessing 12-20 per second!
Scary. Hope everyone is alright.
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Re: Storm damage
Sat, May 22, 2004 - 9:30 PMBunch of rain, some wind, lots of lightning flashes, but for the most part everything ok in Omaha. -
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Re: Storm damage
Sun, May 23, 2004 - 6:24 AMThanks, Enik--it's good to know there's nothing serious where you're at.
This morning's Omaha World Herald reports at least 18 tornados associated with last night's storm. Wild. That's more than a third of our annual average.
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Re: Storm damage
Mon, May 24, 2004 - 3:00 PMLarge hail stones pummeled my windows today. They reported up to 1" diameter, but I only saw 3/4".
Looks like it has cleared up now. It was pretty noisy for awhile.
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Re: Storm damage
Mon, May 24, 2004 - 6:44 PMNasty!
I'm glad the hailstones pummeled only your windows, and not you! We had a quiet day here, but we could see explosive thunderstorm development over the county to our east. Doppler radar indicated another tornado with that one.
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