(Weeping Water) — Portions of southeast Nebraska were also among those assessing damage from Thursday’s early morning severe storms and a possible tornado.
Cass County Emergency Management Agency officials are among those compiling damage reports after a squall line ripped across portions of southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa, triggering multiple severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings across the region. Cass County EMA Director Chad Korte tells KMA News that storms began developing farther west in Nebraska and continued to intensify as they pushed east, setting off tornado warnings across the county, which began shortly after 5:15 a.m.
“It started out with the tornado warning in the Eagle, Elmwood, and Avoca area and so far, we haven’t gotten any reports of any damage there,” said Korte. “Then, they pretty much warned the whole county for 80-mile-an-hour winds. As they were doing that, they came up with another tornado warning that was around the Weeping Water, Nehawka, Union, and Lake Waconda area.”…