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) - Some of you remember it vividly. On May 6, 1975, fifty years ago, a cold front moved through the state of Nebraska, creating a squall line of severe weather. A strong tornado ...

Ralston Bank and Grandmother’s Skillet on the south side of L and 84th Streets were next, then the tornado upended an industrial area before crossing Interstate 80 into the Westgate neighborhood.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The quality of the video may be grainy from 50 years ago, but Mike Kelley’s memory is clear. “It really does seem like it was yesterday,” he said. He was a senior in high school. ...

Fifty years ago to the day, the neighborhood near 70th Avenue and Blondo was one of many decimated in the 1975 tornado. Cheryl Mau Bramhall and Dan Vogel lived on 70th Avenue just down the street from ...

WILL NEVER FORGET IT. OMAHA TORN APART BY THE TORNADO OF 75. THREE PEOPLE WERE KILLED, HUNDREDS MORE INJURED AT THE TIME. THE EF4 TORNADO CAUSED MORE DAMAGE THAN ANY OTHER IN U.S. HISTORY. KETV ...

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 ...