HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — The National Weather Service says tornadoes touched down Friday night in rural parts of Nebraska, tearing up trees, powerlines, farm buildings and damaging some homes, but no serious injuries were reported.
Meteorologist Jordan Thies in Hastings says the service received more than a dozen credible reports of tornado sightings from around south-central Nebraska, but says some of those were likely of the same tornado.
Central Nebraska’s Custer County six or seven miles southeast of Oconto had a tornado rating of EF-1, reaching a maximum wind speed of 107 mph, according to the report. Valley County had damage as well 5 miles south of Ord, according to Emergency Management.
Thies says the weather service is in the process of trying to determine how many tornadoes touched down, but he said it was likely at least a few.
One tornado near McCook damaged a farmhouse. Station KLKN in Lincoln reports that an elderly couple was in the home at the time, but suffered only some scratches and bruises.
