I was an elementary school kid and the next day we had a field trip to Joslyn Art Museum (from Papillion). We drove down 84th street to get there and gawked at the damage on both sides of the street. Was the first time I'd seen devastation that bad.

It went right over us.

Everybody, including the customers, went downstairs to the vault and sheltered there until the tornado passed.

Now in Iowa. I used to drive through that area a lot. I hope people can take cover. It's knocking over trains.

I have had GR2Analyst (which uses level 2 doppler data) for several years and trying to capture tornadoes using it and this was the first time I caught rotation stuff.

Some more -

as opposed to just a debris ball. It can happen when a SUP with an embedded strong tornado (that one was over a mile wide for awhile) is trailed by strong SUP's that are riding the same strong updraft because there's not much "lateral" motion with an eastward component of the dryline and the trailing storms keep debris in the air long after the big cyclone passed. If you watched these storms today they didn't move much east it was more north. The main upper level system that's causing this isn't moving much and its going to keep rolling little shortwave bowling balls over roughly the same areas through Sunday which sucks. The atmosphere is still loaded with shotgun soundings. Would've been there in my younger years.
Classic early Spring Tornado Alley outbreak. Haven't seen one of these in a while.

One, it's unusual to see Josh Funk's byline on an AP story that is not about railroads.

Two, I note that there are replies coming from DUers in northeastern Ohio, Philadelphia, and northern Virginia, all watching the storms on the internet. Not that long ago, that would not have been possible. I'm impressed.