Another Huge Nebraska Tornado; This Time Sparing A Town

Another dramatic tornado hit Nebraska yesterday, but the good news is the town it threatened was mostly spared.

Huge tornado near Coleridge, Nebraska yesterday. 

That was unlike the double tornado that killed two people and trashed the town of Pilger, Nebraska.

This time, a huge tornado roared past just outside the small town of Coleridge, Nebraska, a town of about 500 not far south of the southeastern South Dakota border.

It did cause some damage, but at least the town of Coleridge is still pretty much there.

There is still a threat of severe weather, and maybe even a couple more tornadoes in the same area today, but the weather should calm down a bit in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota for the end of the week.

Which is great news, as even those places not hit be tornadoes have been repeatedly battered by severe floods, huge hail and terrible windstorms over the past couple of weeks.

Elsewhere in the nation, severe storms are also forecast in the Great Lakes area today. Strong storms hit the Northeast last night, and there might be a few more today south of New England.

Here's a video of it touching down and then becoming huge. Pretty amazing.

 

Here's another view of the same giant tornado. Note in much of the video how slow its forward speed is. Apparently, it sat just outside the town of Coleridge for as much as a half hour before moving on and dissipating: