On a wild weather day, twister in western Iowa gets top billing

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/weather/on-a-wild-weather-day-twister-in-western-iowa-gets/article_e3301a06-8861-11e5-af1f-bf4d92f6d22d.html

POSTED: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2015 12:30 AM | UPDATED: 6:10 AM, THU NOV 12, 2015.
By Andrew J. Nelson and Jay Withrow / World-Herald staff writers

An EF-1 tornado with estimated peak winds of 110 mph churned across at least 8 miles of western Iowa on Wednesday afternoon, wrecking farm outbuildings and lifting a semitrailer truck out of the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80.

“It was just picked up and thrown,” said Becky Kern, a National Weather Service meteorologist and a member of a team surveying the damage.

The tornado was part of a storm system that also brought rain, snow, hail and winds gusting up to 50 mph to Nebraska and Iowa. The system was still moving across Iowa on Wednesday night. In Omaha and elsewhere in Nebraska, high winds remained and were expected to continue into the early morning hours today.

Earlier in the day, Nebraska bore the brunt of the storm.

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CHRIS MACHIAN / THE WORLD-HERALD

In Bridgewater, Iowa, a hay shed lost the walls and roof after a storm blew through on Wednesday.