RT NewsBaseball-sized hail has pounded homes and cars across Nebraska, as powerful thunderstorms swept the Midwest, wreaking extensive damage, severe flooding and even reportedly tornado touchdowns in some areas.
Hailstones the size of baseballs pummeled the state with devastating effect Tuesday, producing a social media storm flooded with images of the aftermath of the freak hail, showing cracked windshields and houses riddled with holes.
Hail northwest of Bayard. Measured at 4.5". #NEwx pic.twitter.com/AuWBtDMixZ
— Rural Radio Storm Center (@RRNStormCenter) June 3, 2014
@SkyNews In Blair Nebraska USA today @WoodhouseAuto, had 4500 vehicles damaged by hail. Est damage cost $152million pic.twitter.com/Vt6t6VAEvz
— Francis Jenkins RE (@RF_Jenkins) June 4, 2014
The US National Weather Service received reports of flooding and registered winds of up to 85 mph in neighboring Iowa. In addition, there were reported of eight unconfirmed tornado touchdowns in Nebraska, Reuters reported.
Damage to the Rath Inn in Missouri Valley Iowa. Roof blown off and lots of windows broken. #WhatAMess pic.twitter.com/KqRb6ITvmO
— Lt. Darci Tierney (@OPDLtTierney) June 3, 2014
The bout of stormy weather has been brought on by a derecho storm system – a short-lived, large cluster of storms – which is expected to move East on Wednesday morning.
Hail damage in Blair, NE via @Michaeldkrueger's cousin #newx pic.twitter.com/qLKeXyn7sY
— Adam PETErs (@AdamPeters) June 4, 2014
“These storms can knock down trees, cause power outages and travel mayhem for the Wednesday morning commute,” Reuters reported Alex Sosnowski, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather.com, as saying.
look this storm up on dutchsinse on youtube. he documented scalar energy waves before and during these intense storms. these scalar energy patterns(haarp) are seen a day to 2 days before very severe weather breaks out under the beam area. are the communists in the u.s. govt waging war thru destructive weather upon the states and american people?
me say yes.
wow…..scary stuff, and with the crazy weather I get, these little cannon balls from heaven are probably on their way here right now.
My friend was over the other day and I had one screen with a wind map on it. He even said “the next two days are going to suck in kansas eh?”
hot air from So Cal was funneling onto the plains while the gulf was pouring water up to it.
Wait till the 75 pounders hit.