Several dozen tornadoes struck the central United States this Friday, April 26, causing significant damage and injuring at least three people, according to authorities.
More than 70 tornadoes were recorded this Friday, April 26, in the United States, by the American weather services (NWS), mainly around the city of Omaha, in Nebraska.
On site, images from storm chasers posted on social networks show immense black whirlwinds sweeping the sky, returning earth, dust and materials in their path. The result: dozens of destroyed buildings, torn power lines, derailed trains.
In Elkhorn, a suburb of Omaha, images show razed houses, roofs blown off, trees seemingly bare. “Rescuers are continuing to check the affected houses and providing assistance to any injured people,” Omaha police wrote on X.
Further south, near the town of Lincoln, a tornado struck an industrial hangar. The 70 people who were there when the building collapsed were evacuated, but three of them were injured. The life prognosis of these three people is not engaged, Lancaster County authorities reported.
The NWS, which published numerous tornado warnings this Friday in several states in the central United States, predicts that this meteorological phenomenon will continue in this vast region of agricultural plains, including as far as Texas. Tornadoes, a weather phenomenon that is as impressive as it is difficult to predict, are relatively common in the United States, particularly in the central and southern parts of the country.