Devastating footage shows aftermath of tornadoes in Nebraska and Iowa

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Three tornadoes wrecked hundreds of homes in Omaha and Elkhorn, Nebraska, and half of the town of Minden, Iowa, on Friday and there are more twisters expected over the weekend.

Hundreds of homes were flattened, ripped from their foundations, or had their roofs torn off when tornadoes barreled through two states.

Tornado damage is seen in Minden, Iowa, as hundreds of homes were flattened, ripped from their foundations, or had their roofs torn off when tornadoes barreled through two states more videos On the horizon, the full scale of the tornado can be appreciated with the giant clouds slowly turning as the storm barrels across the region.

The driver came across an overturned big rig that had been flipped by the powerful tornado which could still be seen churning away in the distance. Another tornado began elsewhere in Omaha about 5pm and flung planes at Eppley Airfield around like toys and ripped them to shreds 'He lives just outside of Minden, right in the path where the tornado took,' Ehlers told the publication. 'After we cleared everything in Persia, we hoped in the trucks and went to Minden and helped. I found out my grandpa’s house was completely gone, and he’s basically lost everything.'

A drone view shows people inspecting the site of damaged buildings in the aftermath of a tornado in Omaha, NebraskaBNSF train cars are seen derailed along US Route 6 after a tornado between Waverly and Lincoln, NebraskaThree people were injured in Nebraska's Lancaster County when a tornado hit an industrial building, causing it to collapse with 70 people inside.

'We could hear it coming through. When we came up our fence was gone and we looked to the northwest and the whole neighborhood's gone.' He said crews are now doing a second search of homes. He said fire crews would work throughout the night to check all the unsafe structures and make sure no one is inside.

'Was it one long track tornado or was it several tornadoes?' said Becky Kern, the warning coordination meteorologist in the National Weather Service's Omaha office.Damage is seen to home after it was leveled by a tornado near OmahaOmaha police officers search a home for a family after a tornado leveled dozens of homes near Omaha

Two people who were injured in the county were being treated at the trauma center at Bryan Medical Center West Campus in Lincoln, the facility said.Terrifying footage was filmed of a massive tornado was touching down in Nebraska on Friday

 

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