NEWSWATCH SEVEN AT FIVE. IT IS A SOMBER MOMENT IN OMAHA’S HISTORY. 50 YEARS AGO TODAY, A TORNADO TORE THROUGH THE METRO, KILLING THREE PEOPLE AND INJURING HUNDREDS MORE. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. I’M ...
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The quality of the video may be grainy from 50 years ago, but Mike Kelley’s memory is clear. “It really does seem like it was yesterday,” he said. He was a senior in high school. ...
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - 50 years ago on this day, a devastating tornado hit Omaha. At the time, it was the most destructive twister in U.S. history. The E-F four tornado killed three people, injured 130 ...
It’s Omaha’s touchstone moment. Like Pearl Harbor or 9/11, Omahans of certain age remember where they were when an EF-4 tornado struck the heart of the city in 1975. It traveled nine miles south to ...
One person was hospitalized after a shooting near 69th and Dodge Streets early Saturday, according to authorities. Omaha police were contacted after a child brought a loaded handgun to daycare for ...
May 6, 1975, was before modern radar, before television stations had the capability to show radar, before those stations had cameras placed around the city to be able to live-track a storm as they did ...