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Today's Weather News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Nebraska tornado may have been EF4: weather service Midwest surveys damage from rare autumn tornadoes Weather bloggers say 'humdrum' not hurricane as Karen weakens Italy: Bad weather halts recovery efforts Storm packing snow, tornadoes hammers Great Plains Storm brings snow, tornadoes to Great Plains

Nebraska tornado may have been EF4: weather service  Saturday, Oct 05, 2013 09:12 PM PDT By Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A tornado that ripped through Nebraska, injuring 15 people and flattening buildings, may have reached a wind velocity of up to 200 miles per hour, the National Weather Service said on Saturday. It was part of an unusual early autumn storm system that also dropped 3 feet of snow in South Dakota and Wyoming, where a 380-mile (610-km) stretch of Interstate 90 was still closed on Saturday. The twister struck the small town of Wayne in northeast Nebraska on Friday. ... Full Story	Top
Midwest surveys damage from rare autumn tornadoes  Saturday, Oct 05, 2013 03:12 PM PDT By Greg McCune (Reuters) - With daylight on Saturday, emergency responders began assessing the destruction from a series of more than a dozen rare autumn tornadoes that caused injuries and significant damage in rural areas of Iowa and Nebraska. The National Weather Service received 18 reports of tornadoes touching down in the two states on Friday night, including one or more that were a mile wide. The two hardest hit areas were Wayne County, Nebraska, and Woodbury County, Iowa, local officials said. ... Full Story	Top
Weather bloggers say 'humdrum' not hurricane as Karen weakens  Saturday, Oct 05, 2013 09:00 AM PDT With its barely discernible eye far off to the west of its main body, Tropical Storm Karen is beginning to disperse as a significant threat as it moves northward through the Gulf toward the US mainland. Full Story	Top
Italy: Bad weather halts recovery efforts  Saturday, Oct 05, 2013 02:07 AM PDT LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — Authorities say the search to recover bodies from a fishing boat that sank off the southern island of Lampedusa has been called off for a second day because of bad weather. Full Story	Top
Storm packing snow, tornadoes hammers Great Plains  Friday, Oct 04, 2013 10:42 PM PDT SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A deadly storm system that buried parts of Wyoming and South Dakota in heavy, wet snow also brought powerful thunderstorms packing tornadoes to the Great Plains that caused millions of dollars in damage. Full Story	Top
Storm brings snow, tornadoes to Great Plains  Friday, Oct 04, 2013 09:58 PM PDT SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A storm system that buried parts of Wyoming and South Dakota in heavy, wet snow on Friday also brought powerful thunderstorms packing tornadoes to the Great Plains. Full Story	Top

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