NEWSWATCH SEVEN AT FIVE. IT IS A SOMBER MOMENT IN OMAHA’S HISTORY. 50 YEARS AGO TODAY, A TORNADO TORE THROUGH THE METRO, KILLING THREE PEOPLE AND INJURING HUNDREDS MORE. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. I’M ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - 50 years ago on this day, a devastating tornado hit Omaha. At the time, it was the most destructive twister in U.S. history. The E-F four tornado killed three people, injured 130 ...

The Westgate neighborhood will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the May 6, 1975, Omaha tornado with a program at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Pipal Park. Westgate Elementary School was among the many ...

Nearly 1,600 Omaha Public Power District customers lost power last Thursday, but many couldn’t access outage information when they needed it most. 54-year-old Ronald Raney is ordered to repay three ...

It’s Omaha’s touchstone moment. Like Pearl Harbor or 9/11, Omahans of certain age remember where they were when an EF-4 tornado struck the heart of the city in 1975. It traveled nine miles south to ...

Eppley officials also say to arrive at the airport with plenty of time. A now-former Bellevue Police officer has been arrested following a child enticement investigation carried out by the Nebraska ...

May 6, 1975, was before modern radar, before television stations had the capability to show radar, before those stations had cameras placed around the city to be able to live-track a storm as they did ...