Severe Thunderstorm in Omaha June 27th 2008

This is unedited video from a regular point and shoot camera as the storm rolled into west Omaha at about 5:00 PM. The storm was only about 5 minutes, yet sure did a lot of damage throughout the city. There was no reports of a tornado or touchdown of a tornado in Omaha during this storm.

In this video you may note that I was basically in the doorway of the Hewlett Packard office at 108th and Farnam drive. From this east side of the building you will notice lots of traffic on I-680 freeway.

As the clouds approached from the west, the winds start to pick up. Within 90 seconds the winds picked up such velocity, that it actually knocked one lady to her feet. She retreated back into the building and from that moment, the blankets of torrential rain, mixed with the fast winds racked havoc.

You'll note about 1/2 way through the video that no cars on the freeway are no longer visible. You may also see that even the cars 50 feet away in the parking lot at times couldn't be seen.

Although we lost electrical power, approximately 1/3 of the city also lost power (approx. 130,000 customers). Some sections of the city will be without power for many days. Tree limbs and entire trees fell throughout the city. Unfortunately, across the state line in Council Bluffs, Iowa 2 young lives were lost when a very large tree fell onto the car they were in.

My home is about 20 blocks from the HP office and I did snap a few pictures of damage along my ride home. Copy and paste the link here to see a few pictures of damage in the areas from 108th & Farnam Drive to my neighborhood around 120th & Pacific.

http://public.fotki.com/djay11/severe-thunderstorm/

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• Nebraska
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• tornados

[punkfish79]

What happen to the two people in yoru video? Did someone fall? Did you go out to help them? Where did you take this video?

[dejay11]

One of them fell, as you probably could tell.  Yes, I went out to help them and we went back into the building. The location was 108th and Farnam Drive in Omaha.

[ThePapabear1017]

Went to high school in Lincoln Nebraska back in the early sixties. Had some awesome storms back then.

[ScenieGurl]

Oh god i remember this!!! I live in West maple about 5 mins from village point by the target and petsmart. I was riding my bike and i remember seeing a dark blue almost purple wall of clouds. Then it came closer and 115 miles of wind force hit us. My fence posts filled with cement were wrecked, the power was flickering, and my cat got caught out in the storm and died. God i remember that. scared the shit out of me

[musicrocksoutloud166]

hahah i was in disney world when this happened i got a thousand of text saying this shit was happening sense june

[crazywarriorman]

That siren is a T-128.

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[karleeluvsmtdew]

this was a horrid storm! I remember it!

[MidwestRaiseUp420]

This was a CARAZY storm!! I remember driving h ome from work and i literally had to stop ion the middle of the street because i couldnt see out of the windshield!! It was wild!! I wish i had better footage of the storm the I do!

[Yankeefan69]

yeah i live on the edge of Ralston too by the highschool.......the siren swent off because of the 80+mph straight lines winds not a tornado..as jim flowers said on tv during the thunderstorm lol