TODAY MARKS 49 YEARS SINCE A TORNADO RIPPED THROUGH THE HEART OF OMAHA. MAY SIX, 1975. THE TORNADO CUT A NINE MILE PATH FROM RALSTON, RIGHT DOWN 72ND STREET. RIGHT NOW, USING SOME MODERN DAY STORM ...

(COPY SCAN / the Omaha World-Herald) TORNADO OF 1975. Scene looking south toward 70th & Blondo from north 70th Avenue. Tuesday, May 6, 1975, was an extremely muggy day, even by Omaha standards.

The Edmund Fitzgerald changed its route across Lake Superior to protect itself from the violent storm that was coming. It proved fatal.

On May 6, 1975, an F4 tornado tore through Omaha, causing incredible damage. Benson suffered much damage, and was closed off to the public by armed guards to allow homeowners and volunteers try to ...

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 ...

Just a brief note to say "thank you" for the tornado story on pages one and two of the Telegraph dated June 19. It was June 18, 1975, when the tornadoes in the story took place. A Nebraska state ...

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 ...