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While Oklahoma and Kansas are on the highest alerts for extreme weather cells capable of producing powerful tornadoes, new footage of a powerful tornado that hit Lincoln, Nebraska on April 26th has emerged and it is jaw-dropping how much damage it inflicts in a matter of seconds.
The powerful tornado that hit Lincoln, Nebraska on 4/26/24 was an EF-3 tornado with estimated wind speeds reaching 158 MPH and the National Weather Service estimates it was 700-yards wide with a path of 8.6 miles before dissipating.
Dashboard camera footage has now emerged from a car parked in front of a large building and the car was just out of the pathway of the tornado while the building was smack dab in the middle of the path of destruction. In a matter of seconds the building disappears as the power EF-3 tornado in Lincoln, Nebraska moved through and the person in the car must’ve looked on in horror as the structure disappeared.
It is deeply disturbing to see those old trees in the forefront of the footage buckle like straw and fold in the direction that the tornado is coming from. Then the building simply evaporates. It is there one second and gone in an instant.
Hopefully, as the vast majority of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska are currently under tornado watch warnings there will be someone who sees this footage and takes extra caution in the face of danger. That is the primary reason this footage gets shared, to show others what can happen if proper shelter is not sought out in the face of extreme weather conditions.