Strong Tornadoes Strike Central United States

Dozens of strong tornadoes hit the central United States on Friday, causing damage and injuring at least three people, according to authorities. The U.S. National Weather Service recorded over seventy tornadoes on Friday, most of them around the city of Omaha in Nebraska and near Iowa. Images posted by storm chasers on social media showed massive black tornadoes crossing the sky, sweeping up soil, dust, and various materials in their path. The tornadoes destroyed dozens of buildings, uprooted power lines, and derailed trains. In Elkhorn, a suburb of Omaha, pictures showed homes demolished or with roofs torn off, and trees stripped of leaves. The Omaha Police wrote on the platform X: "Relief teams continue to assess damaged homes and provide assistance to any injured." To the south near the city of Lincoln, a tornado struck an industrial warehouse, and about seventy people inside the building were evacuated before it collapsed, though three of them were injured without serious harm, according to Lancaster County authorities during a press conference. The weather service issued several warnings on Friday in several central U.S. states, and it expects this phenomenon to continue on Saturday across the vast agricultural fields all the way to Texas. Tornadoes, a meteorological phenomenon that is difficult to predict, are common in the United States, particularly in the central and southern regions.