More than a dozen tornadoes reported in Nebraska and Texas

A tornado emergency was declared in parts of Nebraska as damaging twisters threatened populated areas. Severe weather was forecast tonight and throughout the weekend, with tens of millions at risk in parts of the Plains and Midwest. NBC News' Jesse Kirsch reports.

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[NoMoreTears]

It was a wild afternoon in Eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa. I live in Omaha. I have never heard the tornado sirens go off so many times in one afternoon. Elkhorn got hit hard with damage but SO FAR we have not heard of any casualties, thank God.

[CountryLiving]

My cousins completely lost their house in Omaha Nebraska and they just moved in a week or two ago luckily no injuries. I was lucky enough to be able to film the tornado when it reached two miles wide it reached top 20 of all time tornados by rotational velocities measuring tornado strength 230 mph gate to gate has a chance to be the first official EF-5 in 11 years. Chance for same storms tomorrow night stay safe everyone.

[CastleMc]

4/26: I heard a total of 83 tornados (just today) as of 8:30 pm and since then there have been quite a few more in NB. Truly an historic outbreak

[mama_Ca]

Here in IOWA and Nebraska hit really hard. Break record.

[jennifergarrett]

aaannndddd thats why I dont live in the prairies anymore. Seen a couple tornadoes, one of which claimed a number of lives. Now i live in the mountains

[xx_Joker_xx]

Stay safe out there ya'll! I hope everyone is okay!

[Roadrunner]

I live in Missouri and I can say we been getting real lucky lately

[grrlpurpleable]

Last year was the hottest recorded and ocean temperatures are still rising. All of that energy in the atmosphere has to come out somewhere. As a species we reap what we sow. Sadly. The hotter it gets, the more extreme the weather will get.

[adamf]

The f5 came 1/2 mile west of my house in Bennington, NE. It was an absolute behemoth wedge tornado that ripped through Elkhorn and Bennington. My friend's farm northeast of 168th and hwy 36 was leveled. He lost everything. House, outbuilding, I mean everything and the debris field is crazy from it.

[leaupton]

God, keep your children safe from harm.

[yeroc]

I used to live in that neighborhood in Omaha.

[janetgilmore]

All you can do is get out of the way seek shelter, lucky it is day time, much more scary in the dark..?

[samseven]

Main stream news is so “Hunger Games meets Idiocracy” it’s almost useless for disseminating useful information.

[Heavilymoderated]

That tornado is coming up behind you, Lester.

[kittervision]

whoever said nothing ever happened in Nebraska?

[cynthiabrownlee]

Kansas no way would I be in Kansas Tornado Alley are you high no way my brother lived in Kansas for about a year play he could not get his family to visit him because of the tornadoes😢

[ladiliacriswell]

Destruction is eminent and you guys need to understand that prayer is so important right now all of us need to keep praying so that these things at least slow down if not stopped for a while so we need to actually pray about the destruction that's happening it is imperative and everybody needs to be praying to the Father the son and the holy Spirit to help with these things Jesus 👑 Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords and we won't stop serving the most high and being obedient 👑💜

[anniebendicion]

Pray without ceasing He promised ..He wiill Never Leave you nor forsake you

[donarrivas]

A strange weather condition but explainable as a season change into its cycle and the earth makes its turn in its solar orbit. The earth is doing some extras to rush a cool airmass from the upper sub arctic to the lower sub arctic region. The weather of the vast land in the U.S continent is influenced by 4 main waters bodies, the Pacific, the Caribbean, the Atlantic, and the Arctic ocean. A persistent low pressure in Arctic means that el nino was surging more than prediction.

The Tropical Cancer is as hot as a oven that makes the Indian agriculture minister passed out in his speech. This gives a prediction of up coming hot, hot, droughty summer in U.S... Only la nina could help out if she ever comes in this spring or the early summer.

[coolguy]

😂 instead of providing protection to the homes of the people living in those states because of the incoming tornados, these conservative governors are focusing on the immigrants and making laws based on them instead of making laws that help the U.S. citizens in times of need. And they say that the liberals don’t help the U.S. people. 😂