Below are live updates on the clean up and aftermath of severe storms and tornadoes that ravaged parts of the Omaha metro area.
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Gov. Jim Pillen gives update after tornadoes hit Nebraska
Thanks to rain-cooled are from storms in Kansas, our severe threat continues to diminish and shift south. However, areas south of I-80 should still be on guard for potential strong to severe thunderstorms moving in from the southwest late this evening and tonight! pic.twitter.com/SkSRchijjO
— NWS Omaha (@NWSOmaha) April 27, 2024
Debris is spread all over Jared and Tory Crozier's property as friends, family and coworkers help clean up the damage after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
A joint press conference will be held with state and local government officials today at the @DCSheriffNE, 3601 N 156th Street, at 3pm to update the public on yesterday’s events and on how our community moves forward.
— Omaha Police Dept (@OmahaPolice) April 27, 2024
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Tornado Warning including Barada NE until 2:45 PM CDT pic.twitter.com/M8XOYaKXjt
— NWS Omaha (@NWSOmaha) April 27, 2024
Severe Thunderstorm Warning including Verdon NE, Shubert NE and Dawson NE until 2:45 PM CDT pic.twitter.com/2uJDPjwQMF
— NWS Omaha (@NWSOmaha) April 27, 2024
Please see below for ways YOU can help those impacted by Friday's devastating tornado in western @DouglasCountyNE #stormrelief #disasterrelief pic.twitter.com/htWuDM8qu4
— DouglasCountyNE (@DouglasCountyNE) April 27, 2024
Here's a look at what radar might look like in your area. Bottom line: stay weather aware with multiple rounds of showers and storms. Flooding and severe weather are still possible today, with the strongest storms expected in southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa. pic.twitter.com/MDsgys456z
— NWS Omaha (@NWSOmaha) April 27, 2024
⚠️Message from Sheriff Aaron Hanson⚠️:
— DCSO - Omaha, NE (@DCSheriffNE) April 27, 2024
🙏”Folks, please do not drive around impacted areas to look at storm damage for mere entertainment.
🚗🚦🚙This is causing traffic jams, especially in hard-hit neighborhoods and could slow emergency response if needed.
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Sycamore Farms hit by tornado, still plans to hold Junkstock next week
Photos and videos: Cleanup begins after April 2024 storms, tornadoes hit Omaha metro area, Iowa
Jon Alexander, bottom left, walks back to his house at Sycamore Farms in Waterloo on Saturday, April 27, 2024. A tornado damaged the roof and trees on the property.
Damage from a tornado the day before is visible at Eppley Airfield in Omaha on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
OPPD trucks line up to restore power at Sycamore Farms in Waterloo on Saturday, April 27, 2024. A tornado damaged the property the day before.
Workers repair the roof of the house at Sycamore Farms in Waterloo on Saturday, April 27, 2024. A tornado damaged the property the day before.
Workers clean up the debris at Sycamore Farms in Waterloo on Saturday, April 27, 2024. A tornado damaged the property the day before.
Workers repair the roof of the house at Sycamore Farms in Waterloo on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Workers clean up the debris at Sycamore Farms in Waterloo on Saturday, April 27, 2024. A tornado damaged the property the day before.
A large tree was uprooted and cut at Sycamore Farms in Waterloo on Saturday, April 27, 2024. A tornado damaged the property the day before.
Workers clean up the debris at Sycamore Farms in Waterloo on Saturday, April 27, 2024. A tornado damaged the property the day before.
Damage is visible at Sycamore Farms in Waterloo on Saturday, April 27, 2024. A tornado damaged the property the day before.
Items for Junkstock were damaged after a tornado hit Sycamore Farms in Waterloo the day before, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
A room was damaged by a tornado on a building used for Junkstock after a tornado hit Sycamore Farms in Waterloo the day before, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Items for Junkstock were damaged after a tornado hit Sycamore Farms in Waterloo the day before, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
A road sign is bent after a tornado the day before near Highway 28 in Waterloo on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Trenton Guardipee, left, and Caiden Marksmeier help stack tree debris at Sycamore Farms in Waterloo on Saturday, April 27, 2024. Both are students at Douglas County West.
People stand on the roof a house damaged by a tornado near 240th and Center Streets near Waterloo, Neb. on Saturday, April 27, 2024. The power lines in his area sustained a heavy damage.
The top of a pole for a power line was snapped off by a tornado the night before near 240th and Center Streets near Waterloo, Neb. on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Irrigation equipment was flipped by a tornado near 252nd and F Streets near Waterloo, Neb. on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Aubrey Attanasio, 12, bottle feeds a calf as her dad, Tony Attanasio, of Persia, Iowa, clears a broken cattle fence as they and other friends, family and coworkers help clean up the damage on Jared and Tory Crozier's property after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Friends, family and coworkers help clean up the damage on Jared and Tory Crozier's property after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Tory Crozier, 30, cleans up the damage after a tornado ripped through her family's property near Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Debris is spread all over Jared and Tory Crozier's property as friends, family and coworkers help clean up the damage after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed with a drone about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Tony Attanasio, 37, of Persia, Iowa, gives water to cattle as he and other friends, family and coworkers help clean up the damage on Jared and Tory Crozier's property after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Lillian Crozier, 9, bottle feeds a calf as friends, family and coworkers help clean up the damage on her family's property after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Friends, family and coworkers help clean up the damage, including a destroyed RV, on Jared and Tory Crozier's property after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Debris is spread all over Jared and Tory Crozier's property as friends, family and coworkers help clean up the damage after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Tory Crozier's greenhouse is damaged after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Dead chickens are found throughout a property after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Debris is spread all over Jared and Tory Crozier's property as friends, family and coworkers help clean up the damage after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Friends, family and coworkers help clean up the damage on Jared and Tory Crozier's property after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Debris is spread all over Jared and Tory Crozier's property as friends, family and coworkers help clean up the damage after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Kasey Bradley, 42, of Portsmouth, Iowa, and Nolan Driver, 23, of Neola, Iowa, clean up the damage on a property after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Drivers wait to try and enter Minden, Iowa after a tornado ripped through on Friday evening. Photographed just west of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Iowa state troopers guide drivers trying to enter Minden, Iowa after a tornado ripped through on Friday evening. Photographed just west of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Cleanup continues in the Ramble Wood neighborhood of Elkhorn.
Cleanup continues in the Ramble Wood neighborhood of Elkhorn.
Cleanup continues in the Ramble Wood neighborhood of Elkhorn.
Cleanup continues in the Ramble Wood neighborhood of Elkhorn.
Emergency personnel clean up the damage after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed with a drone on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Emergency personnel clean up the damage after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Emergency personnel clean up the damage after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Emergency personnel clean up the damage after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Debris is spread all over Jared and Tory Crozier's property as friends, family and coworkers help clean up the damage after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
A tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed with a drone on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Volunteers Kelly Storejohann (left) and Deb Hurst fold donated clothes at First Lutheran Church in Blair on Saturday afternoon.
A Friday tornado damaged the Uleman near 216th and Maple Streets in Omaha, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Looking south toward the Elkhorn neighborhood, evidence of a Friday tornado is evident on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Houses were damaged from a Friday night tornado at Newport Landing in Bennington, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Michael Cawcutt checks out a wayward floating dock at Bennington Lake in the Newport Landing neighborhood in Bennington, Neb. on Saturday, April 27, 2024. The dock had come to rest on the west of the lake, but Cawcutt, who is the Newport Landing home owners association president, wasn't sure what part of the lake the tornadic storm from the day before moved it from.
Michael Cawcutt checks out a wayward floating dock at Bennington Lake in the Newport Landing neighborhood in Bennington, Neb. on Saturday, April 27, 2024. The dock had come to rest on the west of the lake, but Cawcutt, who is the Newport Landing home owners association president, wasn't sure what part of the lake the tornadic storm from the day before moved it from.
Houses were damaged from a Friday night tornado at Newport Landing in Bennington, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Andrea Kathol cleans up debris out of Bennington Lake at Newport Landing in Bennington on Saturday, April 27, 2024. A tornado damaged homes in the Newport Landing neighborhood the night before.
A Friday tornado damaged the Uleman near 216th and Maple Streets in Omaha, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
A Friday tornado damaged the Uleman near 216th and Maple Streets in Omaha, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
A Friday tornado damaged filled the bathroom sink with insulation inside the Uleman near 216th and Maple Streets in Omaha, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
A Friday tornado damaged the Uleman near 216th and Maple Streets in Omaha, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
A Friday tornado damaged the Uleman near 216th and Maple Streets in Omaha, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Clothing is hanging from a tree near 216th and Maple Streets after a Friday tornado in Omaha, photorgaphed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
An OPPD worker repairs power lines damaged by a tornado near 216th and Maple Streets in Omaha on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
An OPPD worker repairs power lines damaged by a tornado near 216th and Maple Streets in Omaha on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Misty Homen,left, and Andrea Kathol cleansup debris out of Bennington Lake at Newport Landing in Bennington on Saturday, April 27, 2024. A tornado damaged homes in the Newport Landing neighborhood the night before.
Andrea Kathol cleans up debris out of Bennington Lake at Newport Landing in Bennington on Saturday, April 27, 2024. A tornado damaged homes in the Newport Landing neighborhood the night before.
Volunteers clean up debris at Newport Landing in Bennington, Neb. on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
From left, Gary ,Clay, and Jill Uleman pose for a portrait in the tornado-damaged second floor of their house near 216th and Maple Streets in Omaha on Saturday, April 27, 2024. Gary and Jill are Clay's parents.
OPPD workers repair power lines damaged by a tornado near 216th and Maple Streets in Omaha on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Houses were damaged from a Friday night tornado at Newport Landing in Bennington, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Houses were damaged from a Friday night tornado at Newport Landing in Bennington, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
