Photo: Waterloo Fire Department
(Omaha, NE) — More than 100 storm damage reports are recorded by the National Weather Service from Kearney through Lincoln and Omaha, to Blair and into Northwest Iowa.
Most reports are for wind damage. Trees and branches down, power lines down, and some damage to homes and other buildings. At the height there were 31,000 customers without power in Lincoln and 39,000 in the Omaha area.
Three-hundred-87 prisoners at the Nebraska State Penitentiary are being relocated. Two housing units were damaged in the storms in Lincoln early this morning. NSP says all staff and inmates are accounted for, no one was hurt. Visitation is cancelled for today.
A woman is dead and man hospitalized after early morning storms hit Two Rivers State Park early Saturday morning, near Waterloo, northwest of Omaha.
The Waterloo Fire Department says a large tree fell on their truck, killing the woman. The man was trapped in the passenger seat of the crushed truck. It took firefighters more than 90 minutes to extricate him. He was taken to University of Nebraska Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
The extraction process was complex and challenging due to the size and weight of the cottonwood tree, estimated at more than ten-thousand pounds.
Photos from Two Rivers State Park rescue scene by permission of Waterloo Fire Chief T.D. Harlow
Photo: National Weather Service
Photo: Waterloo Fire Department