Wind-driven baseball-sized hail destroys car windows, blisters siding of buildings in Nebraska
Hail in Fremont ranged from egg-sized to baseball-sized stones, with a report in Arlington of softball-sized hail.
Watch: Hotel, vehicle windows shattered following ferocious hailstorm in Fremont, NE
A powerful hailstorm ripped through Fremont, Nebraska, on Thursday, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.
FREMONT, Neb.– Severe thunderstorms whipping baseball-sized hail amid wind gusts reaching hurricane force left a trail of significant damage across Nebraska on Thursday night.
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Video from a hotel in Fremont showed large hail stones bouncing into a hotel room through a window shattered during the storm. Wind gust reports from weather spotters in the area ranged from 67 to 82 mph as the storms blew through.
After the storms had passed, video detailed the damage to the hotel building, with every window on the wind-facing side blown out.
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Hotel windows destroyed by hail.
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"Holy smokes," said someone in the video, as they panned around the hotel. "Every window is gone."
Hail left cars in the parking lot badly dented, and their windows shattered; glass everywhere.
Shattered back windshield of a car in Fremont, NE.
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"Here's our ride home tomorrow," the person says, showing a sedan with its back windshield smashed into tiny pieces.
Photos from a home in Fremont show much of the same. The house's siding was demolished, sticking off the house in shards.
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Baseball-sized hail destroyed the siding on a home in Fremont, Nebraska.
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Hailstones litter the ground underneath the house.
With the siding ripped off and damaged, the pink house wrap is visible.
Siding ripped off a home after hail reported to be baseball-sized in Fremont. Nebraska.
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Another photo shows the homeowner's car significantly dented, windshield pelted in by hail. The yard in the back is white with more hail.
In the background, hail covers a neighboring house's roof.
A destroyed car windshield after baseball-sized hail fell in Fremont, Nebraska.
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Hail in Fremont ranged from egg-sized to baseball-sized stones, with a report in nearby Arlington of 4-inch, softball-sized hail.
Storm reports in and around Fremont, Nebraska.
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Softball-sized hail was also observed in McClelland, Iowa.
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The severe weather threat continues into the weekend, with millions of Americans in the Midwest and Plains under the threat through Easter Sunday.