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Pacific Storm System Moves Inland; Strong Storm in Alaska

A Pacific storm system will bring low elevation/valley rain and mountain snow as it moves inland to the central Great Basin through the central Rockies through Thursday. Scattered thunderstorms are likely from California into the Great Basin. A large low pressure system continues to bring snow, blizzard conditions, damaging winds, and mixed precipitation along the Bering Sea and Southwest Alaska. Read More >

During the evening of April 4th, thunderstorms rumbled across south-central Nebraska. Most storms brought rains and some small hail.  One storm did cause some damage near the community of Fairfield in Clay County.  A tornado brief tornado touched down south of Fairfield and moved to the northwest. At the start, the twister took the roof off of a barn.  Near the end of the tornado's path of distruction, it destroyed three outbuildings and caused damage to two homes.  This tornado was rated EF0. 

A little later, a second tornado touched down just east of Sutton in northeast Clay County.  This tornado was also rated EF0.  No damage was reported with the second tornado.