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Learn more about severe weather and protect yourself with these explainers

JOE MARTUCCI Lee Weather Team
May 6, 2024
May 6, 2024 Updated Nov 18, 2025
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Our Lee Weather Team of Kirsten Lang, Matt Holiner, Sean Sublette and Joe Martucci is keeping a close watch on impending severe weather conditions in your area.

You can stay ahead of the storm now with these explainer safety and educational videos on severe weather and tornadoes.

Tornado explainer and safety weather videos

How to shelter from a tornado, depending on where you are | Joe Martucci reports

The tornado damage associated with each EF rating

Tornado alerts explained with Meteorologist Matt Holiner

Severe thunderstorm explainer weather videos

What are the different severe thunderstorm warning levels?

What is a cap? And how does it lead to stronger thunderstorms?

What is a microburst? And what kind of damage can it do?

Why you shouldn't shower during a thunderstorm

Hail explainer weather videos

How does hail form in a thunderstorm?

Why do some hailstones get so large?

Nebraska braces for rounds of storms and potential severe weather, forecast here

Nebraska braces for rounds of storms and potential severe weather, forecast here

Multiple rounds of thunderstorms will pass through Nebraska Sunday into Monday night. Severe weather will threaten in all of them. Lee Weather Team Meteorologist Joe Martucci has the update.

Lake McConaughy hit by tornado; winds cause damage elsewhere in Nebraska

Lake McConaughy hit by tornado; winds cause damage elsewhere in Nebraska

The National Weather Service Office in North Platte said there were as many as nine tornadoes that touched down in central and western Nebraska Thursday night and into Friday.