I was on the other side of St Louis coming home from BG when I heard that a tornado wiped out the whole town of Hallam Ne. That is 25 miles from where I live. I work with several people that lost it all, one of the guys just sold his acreage of 20 years and the new owners lived there for 20 days and it is totally gone. It was a F4 and it is amazing that there was only 1 fatality and elderly woman. It threw train cars and school buses around like toys. There is just one big white house in the middle of town that looks untouched. "TOTALLY AMAZING"
I was watching the weather close a tornado was on the ground in south topeka!!!!:eek2: I am glad I was in NORTH TOPEKA!!!:TU:
another round Well there was another round tonight. At around 4:30 2 tornados touched down in Tabor, IA. Not nearly with the force that took out Hallam. At the same time 2 wall clouds were spotted about 5 miles from my house but nothing developed. We had 3" of rain tonight in Omaha in about an hour. This on top of the 4" we got on Sat night. This was round 3 in 4 days. Gotta love spring in NE. An F4 tornado has wind speeds in excess of 207 mph:jd: :jd: It is said that 95% of Hallam was totally demollished. I just heard on the news that the line of storms that rolled through this evening spawned 10 tornados in Ne.
Another interesting thing about the storms on Saturday night is that someone in Papillion, NE (basically the south edge of Omaha) saw a piece of paper on her sidewalk and just thought it was a piece of trash. She later went out to pick it up and it was a bank deposit slip from the bank in Hallam for deposit into Hallam Grain account. When she saw it on the sidewalk it had only been one half hour AFTER the storms hit Hallam! That's 1/2 hour to go approximately 73 miles!!! Also of note. A man 25 miles east of Council Bluffs, IA found a cancelled check in his yard that had been written by someone who lived in Hallum. :shock: Also, durring last night's storms that broke out at around 4 o'clock, I was on my way to replace a windshield at Robert's Dairy here in Omaha. Where they are located is at the lowest point in a large area surrounding them. Within about 20 minutes of my showing up I was wading through between 4 & 6 inches of water INSIDE their shop!! Outside they said it was probably about 8-12 inches deep. A hell of a way to find out you have fairly water tight shoes!! Me feets stayed dry!! :TU: Tornados are very amazing storms. I remember my mother talking about when she was a kid one hit near her home town and later they went to survey the damage and she remembers seeing a piece of straw driven THROUGH a telephone pole!!!:eek2:
