Some injuries were reported but there were no immediate reports that anyone was killed.
A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday afternoon, damaging hundreds of homes and other structures as the twister tore for miles along farmland and into subdivisions.Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska but the most destructive storm moved from a largely rural area into suburbs northwest of Omaha, a city of 485,000 people.
Omaha Fire Chief Kathy Bossman said crews had gone to the “hardest hit area” and had a plan to search anywhere someone could be trapped. “People had warnings of this and that saved lives," Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said, of the few serious injuries. The tornado warning was issued in the Omaha area on Friday afternoon just as children were due to be released from school.
The passenger terminal wasn't hit by the tornado but people rushed to storm shelters until the twister passed, McCoy said. Taylor Wilson, a spokesperson for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said they hadn’t seen any injuries yet.
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