ONCE YOU HEAD OUT FOR BEST ALL WEEK, WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE STRENGTH OF FRIDAY’S TORNADO AS DAMAGE SURVEYS CONTINUE. METEOROLOGIST LUKE VICKERY HAS THE PATH, THE SPEED AND THE POWER IN TODAY’S WEATHER. NOW EXTRA. SO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS SENT OUT THEIR STORM SURVEY CREWS AND PASSED ALONG THE INFORMATION THEY FOUND. AND THESE ARE ALL THE TORNADOES THAT WE SAW. THE TORNADO OUTBREAK REPORTS FROM FRIDAY, APRIL 26TH, 2024, WHICH IS OF COURSE, WAS LAST FRIDAY. THE TORNADO OUTBREAK WE SAW. SO WE’RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE STRENGTH OF THESE TORNADOES AND CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF WHEN THEY TOUCHED DOWN THEIR PEAK WINDS, HOW WIDE THEY WERE, AND THEN ALSO HOW LONG THEY WERE ON THE GROUND, THEIR TRACK. SO FIRST TORNADO OF THAT AFTERNOON AND EVENING, THIS ONE STARTED JUST NORTHEAST OF LINCOLN AND MOVED IN TOWARDS THE WAVERLE AREA. THIS WAS A STRONG EF THREE TORNADO. IT HAD PEAK WINDS ALMOST TO 160MPH, 700 YARDS WIDE, AND WAS ABOUT 8.6 MILES IN TRACK FROM LIFE TO DEATH THERE. SO THE NEXT TORNADO AND THIS WAS OUR STRONGEST TORNADO OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IT WAS A HIGH END EF THREE TORNADO. IT STARTED AROUND THE ELKHORN AREA AND MOVED ALL THE WAY UP TOWARDS BLAIR 165 MILE PER HOUR PEAK WINDS, AND IT WAS ABOUT ONE MILE WIDE, JUST A MASSIVE TORNADO AND IT WAS ON THE GROUND FOR JUST OVER 31 MILES. AFTER THAT PACIFIC JUNCTION GOT IN ON SOME OF THESE TORNADOES, AN EF ONE TORNADO. SO ONE OF THE WEAKER TORNADOES THROUGH OUR AFTERNOON PEAK WINDS OF ONLY ABOUT 100MPH. AND OF COURSE, THESE ARE ESTIMATED AS WELL, 800 YARDS WIDE. AND THEN ABOUT A 2.7 MILE TRACK THERE UP TO THE NORTH. EPPLEY AIRFIELD. AND IF YOU ARE WATCHING OUR LIVE COVERAGE HERE, WE WATCH THIS TORNADO DROP DOWN ON EPPLEY AIRFIELD FROM OUR EXCLUSIVE SKYCAM NETWORK FOR LEWIS AND CLARK MONUMENT SKYCAM. AND THIS WAS A STRONG TORNADO. IT WAS AN EF THREE TORNADO OVER 500 YARDS WIDE. IT’S MAX ESTIMATED WINDS WERE AROUND 152MPH, AND IT WAS ON THE GROUND MOVING UP TO THE NORTH AND EAST FOR ABOUT 615 MILES. AND IF YOU MOVE JUST SOUTH OF THERE, OUR NEXT TORNADO IN ORDER TRAINER UP TOWARDS MCCLELLAN, ANOTHER EF THREE TORNADO. SO JUST AN ABSURD AMOUNT OF EF THREE STRONG LONG TRACK TORNADOES HERE. THIS ONE WAS ON THE GROUND FOR ABOUT 13.3 MILES, 800 YARDS WIDE AND ITS MAX WINDS ABOUT 145MPH. SO THAT’S ANOTHER STRONG TORNADO THERE AS WE MOVE UP TOWARDS NORFOLK. THIS IS THE NEXT TORNADO THAT TOUCHED GROUND. THIS WAS IN THE NORFOLK AREA, JUST AN EF ONE TORNADO. ONE OF OUR WEAKER TORNADOES, 100 YARDS WIDE, WASN’T EVEN ON THE GROUND FOR A MILE, AND ITS WIND SPEEDS MAX. WIND SPEEDS JUST OVER 100MPH. AND THIS WAS OUR LONGEST TRACK TORNADO HERE. THE NEXT ONE, IN ORDER, STARTED AROUND THE MINDEN AREA AND THEN MOVED ALL THE WAY UP TOWARDS THE DEFIANCE. THIS WAS A STRONG EF THREE TORNADO MAX WINDS OF 160MPH. THIS ONE WAS ALMOST A MILE WIDE. BUT NOTICE THE STORM TRACK. THIS ONE WAS ON THE GROUND FOR ALMOST FOUR ONE MILES AS IT MADE ITS WAY ALL THE WAY UP TOWARDS THE DEFIANCE. THEN, AFTER THIS ONE ENDED ITS LIFE, WE HAD TWO MORE START THEIR LIVES AND WE LABELED THIS ONE NUMBER ONE. STARTING TOWARDS MANILA. THAT WAS AN EF TWO TORNADO. MAX WINDS OF JUST OVER 100MPH, 200 YARDS WIDE, 9.2 MILE TRACK. AND IT’S PARTNER JUST TO THE LEFT OF THERE. THAT ONE ONE WAS AN EF ONE TORNADO. IT WAS ABOUT HALF THE WIDTH OF ITS COUNTERPART. IT WAS ON THE GROUND FOR ABOUT 12.3 MILES, AND WE ENDED THIS TORNADO OUTBREAK WITH A TORNADO NEAR CRESTON, IOWA. YOU CAN SEE THE TRACK HERE KIND OF FALLS OFF THE END OF THE MAP. THAT’S JUST BECAUSE IT EXITED OUR DMA. SO IT KIND OF MAKES IT LOOK LIKE IT FALLS OFF THE END OF THE EARTH THERE. BUT IT IS A STRAIGHT STORM TRACK THERE. ANOTHER STRONG TORNADO WAS AN EF TWO, BUT 125 MILE PER HOUR MAX WINDS 350 YARDS WIDE, AND IT WAS ABOUT AN 8.4 MILE TRACK. THERE. SO WE SAW A LOT OF STRONG TORNADOES THAT REALLY GOT UNCOMFORTABLY CLOSE TO THE VIEWING AREA. SO I HOPE THIS HELPS YOU BREAK IT DOWN FROM LIFE TO DEATH OF THIS STORM EVENT AND SHOWS YOU ALL THE TORNADOES WE HAD AND THEN