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A deadly duo of massive, relentlessly fast-moving tornadoes rained down terror in northeast Nebraska on Monday evening.
Photos from the tiny town of Pilger, Nebraska show a community devastated after 200MPH winds ripped though and leveled homes, entire neighborhoods, gutted the town's middle school and destroyed it's Farmer's Co-Op.
As Monday evening turned to night, one casualty had been reported, with at least 16 critically injured in the area.
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Devastating: Massive, dual tornadoes caused significant damage to homes in northeast Nebraska on Monday
Leveled: Pilger, Nebraska was hit especially hard, as seen by this photo of a leveled home. Storm chasers stopped photographing after snapping this photo in order to help with rescue efforts
Warning: The extent of the twin tornadoes' damage was still trickling in as the National Weather Service warned Nebraska and Iowa that more twisters could still be on their way along with flash floods and severe thunderstorms
As the full extent of damage in the small prairie towns remained to be seen, the National Weather Service continued to warn of possible tornadoes over large swaths of both Nebraska and Iowa, as well as the flash floods and severe thunderstorms birthed by these powerful storm system.
'I’m standing in Pilger, and I see devastation,' Stanton County Commissioner Jerry Weatherholt told the Lincoln Journal-Star. 'It looks like a war zone. It absolutely looks like a war zone.'
First responders filled the Pilger, but some witnessed described the gut-wrenching rescue efforts as disorganized at best.
'There are a lot of people around not too much organization,' said Weatherholt.
At least three tornadoes were reported in the area Monday evening, with more potentially to come.
Horrific: Witnesses in Pilger reported near total devastation after the EF-4 tornadoes wiped a massive section of their twon off the face of the earth
Gutted: Pilger Middle School remained partially standing after Monday's storm, but appeared completely gutted by the twister. Students were off for summer vacation. At right, the school as it appeared before the storm
Dead zone: Trees, once verdant with springtime leaves, were stripped and shredded by 200MPH winds. Here, a group of felled trees appear with the gutted Pilger Midle School as their backdrop
Heartland horror: A tornado touches down near Pilger. Large tornadoes hit rural areas of northeastern Nebraska on Monday afternoon, with reports of property damage, according to forecasters and the Weather Channel
Two of the menacing storms are believed to have had an intensity of EF-4, which are some of the deadliest and most destructive.
Meteorologist Barbara Mayes says the tornadoes that touched down were about a mile apart, near the towns of Stanton and Pilger, 100 miles northwest of Omaha.
While storm clusters are sometimes seen with multiple tornadoes, usually one is the dominant storm while the other less powerful twisters rotate around it.
In an almost unheard of occurrence, the Pilger tornadoes were almost equally powerful as both were capable of producing 200MPH winds.
'It was like God dragged two fingernails across the the land,' witness Gregg Moeller told the Norfolk Daily News. 'Oh my God, the damage is unbelievable.'
The titanic storm systems that formed these deadly twisters have also brought with them into the region golf ball sized hail, severe thunderstorms and damaging non-cyclonic winds.
Photographer Brian Davidson was on the ground in Pilger, where he said every structure he could see for five or six blocks had suffered damage.
Three twisters: Meteorologists report that three tornadoes likely touched down in northeast Nebraska, with the twin EF-4 tornadoes doing the most damage. Here, a single twister barrels along US 275 near Norfolk, Nebraska
'There's no street signs left,' he told Omaha.com. 'Cars are tossed.'
Davidson said he even saw a car inside a home.
'It's very chaotic here right now,' he said.
Pilger's nickname for itself, 'The Town too Tuff to Die' may seem a bitter irony now that so much of the village appeared to have been blown away like dust.
'The town too tuff to die': Pilger, Nebraska's nickname for itself may seem a bitter irony after Monday evening's spat of massive, fast-moving twisters all but leveled the town of fever than 400 residents
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This is just the beginning! When will the wicked suffer in Gods timing!
Everyone knows the midwest get hit with twisters. every year, I will stay my black ass in New York.
@Ricardo O'Connor i just feel sorry for those who dont get it, but by time they do it will be too late
@evolution God is angry at us for turning away from him at the same time it was written for those who committed the crimes to pay for their crimes white folks are going to the worse struggles and they have seen nothing yet, as for the immigrants you have to realize they were already condition like that before they come here, but they get it every day if it wasnt for us they would not get anything, some of those people used to be doctors are lawyers in their countries yet come here to do two to 3 jobs, and still struggling some of them still live in a room, and when i see they talk like that i throw it in their faces or spit at them, they are lower than the ground that i walk because they can talk all they want we are where we belong we dont have to go to anyone country to survive the only time we go there is for that lousy vacation which i dont do i will not give my money to people who does not respect me and the other time we go is when we go take advantage at business they can not carry so i carry my head so high immigrants cant even look at me in the face and i dont care where they come from chinese, islanders or what so ever to me just every one who dont respect the path that we set aare trash
People turn their backs so far away from God that they don’t even see God working. @Stokes I believe what you said is true about the sins of those people being punish. The history of blacks in this country is very sorrowful and that is why, I get angry/upset at the disrespect immigrants of color give black folks when they migrate here.
@BIIGMANN God has everything to do with it whether you want to believe it or not, if he is angry about the sins his anger will show, if those over there have to pay for their sins by natural disaster, he will turn his back and allow it, why do you thin so many are destroy, and with all that its what we call casualties of war from the Bible, it is real whether you want to believe it or not, we will not argue about it but all i can tell you just sit and wait, keep watching you have seen nothing yet, i dont go to church i read what i need to learn and understand as i put the reality together and this is how how predict my future
@Connie if you go back and read about the real history you will learn in the midwest and deep south the sins are very high, so many blacks were lynched like a family gathering they thought their kids it was the right thing to do, they shot blacks for fun and many were tortured and starved to death even after slavery back in the early 60s, none of those people had a proper burial, many land out there are left abandoned no one would build out there because of the remains the government will not spend money to clean it and do research and that is another way and brush it off to keep away from the general public like it never happened, now ask your self tornadoes, hurricanes, flood and also wild fire, and sometimes the grave yard comes up casket floating around, if you sit down and think about all that those states will be haunted for years to come and their kids will pay the price as you can see many are turning against their parents in those same states, seriously ask your self why and that is why i tell people be careful where you move or relocate, do your community analysis because the fog will come to many, the spirit will come and collect
Why bring god into this? Dammmm
Mr1Stroke is right....
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