Power Outage in Gresham, NE

Tornado. Amongst the widespread damage from wind and hail, it was determined an EF2 tornado occurred. The tornado formed about two miles west-southwest of Lushton and immediately damaged three farmsteads. Damage included, but was not limited to the following: a garage being torn from a home; several outbuildings destroyed; extensive tree damage; irrigation pivots overturned; grain bins destroyed. Signs of leaf and mud splatter, lofted debris, and a multi-directional/convergent damage pattern was noted. Two minor injuries occurred. ||The tornado wind field may have been as wide as 400 yards at times. The tornado climbed out of the Big Blue River Valley and moved northeast toward the northwest side of Lushton. A farmstead just northwest of town was damaged, including a completely destroyed wood frame outbuilding, uprooted trees and some structural damage to the home. The structural damage was most likely caused by a large portion of the outbuilding hitting the home. In Lushton, there was widespread tree damage. A very large grain bin was destroyed, along with a smaller one.||The rating of EF2 and maximum wind speed estimate of 115 MPH was given based on power poles snapped north-northeast of Lushton. The tornado continued east-northeast and upset more pivots, destroyed grain bins, snapped power poles and caused tree damage. The tornado lifted about two miles west of McCool Junction.

June 14, 2022

Thunderstorm Wind. Wind gusts in this area were estimated to have peaked near 105 MPH. Damage included a number of overturned irrigation pivots and snapped wooden power poles. A large outbuilding was also damaged, an approximately 60 foot tall concrete silo was toppled, and a grain bin was blown off its foundation and into a nearby field.

June 14, 2022

While the majority of South Central Nebraska enjoyed a seasonably-warm and tranquil Tuesday evening, it was a different story within a few far northeastern/east-central counties, where a pair of somewhat high-based supercells advanced south-southeastward, leaving behind swaths of mainly large hail but also more localized damaging winds. The first of these intense storms entered the local area into far eastern Nance County shortly after 7 p.m. CDT, striking Genoa and vicinity with a combination of estimated 70 MPH winds and nickel to quarter size hail. Around 8 p.m. CDT it reached central Polk County, pummeling the Osceola area with several minutes of hail up to 2 inches in diameter. An NeRAIN observer seven miles north of Osceola reported significantly stripped corn and that house flowers are now sticks. The supercell continued into eastern York County, still producing hail up to golf ball size in Thayer and ping pong balls east of McCool Junction. Around 9:30 p.m. CDT a weakening trend had commenced, but not before the storm brushed northeast Fillmore County on its way out of the local area and blew down a few tree branches near Exeter. Meanwhile, about 60 miles back to the northwest, another supercell somewhat-unexpectedly fired up over northern Nance County around 9 p.m. CDT. This storm was not as proficient of a large hail producer as its predecessor (largest reported was quarter size near Clarks and Hordville), but it packed more of a wind punch as its core started collapsing over the Hamilton-York County line between 10-10:30 p.m. CDT. Most notably, estimated 70 MPH gusts blew over a semi truck on Interstate 80 near the Hampton exit and also damaged a roof and broke power poles near Bradshaw. Shortly thereafter, this second supercell began dissipating, fading from radar over southeastern Fillmore County around 1130 p.m. CDT and bringing an end to all convection for the night. ||Forecast-wise, this was considered an all-or-nothing setup for South Central Nebraska in the early morning local forecast discussion, as some computer models correctly predicted the presence of supercells locally, while others insisted that all regional convection would focus at least slightly east-northeast of the area altogether. This uncertainty was understandable given various pros and cons at play. One of the biggest pros for robust supercell development was seasonably-strong deep layer wind shear of 40-50 knots, as the area resided under pronounced northwesterly flow within the interface between an expansive ridge over the southwestern states and a deep southeast Canada trough. As for cons, they were mainly highlighted by seasonably-unimpressive low level moisture and resultant instability. Although afternoon temperatures soared to around 90 (F) to the south of a west-east oriented warm front across northeast Nebraska, dewpoints along the front struggled to reach the low-60s during peak heating, yielding fairly modest mixed-layer CAPE no higher than 1000-1500 J/kg. Ultimately though, persistent low-level convergence along the intersection of the aforementioned warm front and a subtle, northeast-southwest oriented trough proved sufficient to spark convective initiation as early as 4 p.m. CDT about 60 miles to the north of South Central Nebraska. This early convection drifted more eastward initially, but eventually dove more southward as it intensified, allowing the first supercell to infiltrate far northeastern local counties. For a while it appeared this would be South Central Nebraska's only severe storm of the evening, but the second one likely ignited as the onset of a southwesterly low level jet converged into the first storm's trailing outflow.

June 22, 2021

Thunderstorm Wind. Wind gusts were estimated to be 65 to 70 MPH. Roof damage and broken power poles were reported 2 miles east of Bradshaw.

June 22, 2021

Ice Storm. Freezing rain and freezing drizzle resulted in a coating of ice at least one-quarter inch thick. Travel was hazardous, and numerous tree limbs were downed. Power lines were also affected, causing power outages.

November 09, 2020

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