Devastating tornadoes tore across parts of eastern Nebraska and northeast Texas Friday as a multi-day severe thunderstorm event ramped up in the central United States.
From left; Ally Mercer, Gabe Sedlacek Kaleb Andersen and Austin Young watch a tornado from a seventh floor parking garage on Friday, April 26, 2024, in Lincoln, Neb.
A Level 3 of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms in place in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri was expanded south into Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas early Friday afternoon. “Several factors appear to be supportive of a significant tornado event today,” the prediction center warned Friday morning. The tornado risk will continue to increase into the evening hours.
“A complex but potentially significant severe weather episode is expected on Saturday,” the prediction center cautioned Friday. Damaging storms are possible outside of the greatest risk area in a huge area of the country from the Great Lakes to southern Texas. U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday that he is willing to debate his presumptive Republican opponent, Donald Trump, later this fall – his most definitive comment yet on the issue.An American Airlines flight attendant was indicted Thursday after authorities said he tried to secretly record video of a 14-year-old girl using an airplane bathroom last September.
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