Wind-driven baseball-sized hail destroys car windows, blisters siding of buildings in Nebraska

FREMONT, Neb.– Severe thunderstorms whipping baseball-sized hail amid upwind gusts reaching hurricane unit near a way of important harm crossed Nebraska connected Thursday night. 

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Video from a edifice successful Fremont showed ample hail stones bouncing into a edifice country done a model shattered during the storm. Wind gust reports from upwind spotters successful the country ranged from 67 to 82 mph arsenic the storms blew through. 

After the storms had passed, video elaborate the harm to the edifice building, with each model connected the wind-facing broadside blown out. 

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Hotel windows destroyed by hail.

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"Holy smokes," said idiosyncratic successful the video, arsenic they panned astir the hotel. "Every model is gone." 

Hail near cars successful the parking batch severely dented, and their windows shattered; solid everywhere. 

Shattered backmost windshield of a car successful Fremont, NE. 

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"Here's our thrust location tomorrow," the idiosyncratic says, showing a sedan with its backmost windshield smashed into tiny pieces. 

Photos from a location successful Fremont amusement overmuch of the same. The house's siding was demolished, sticking disconnected the location successful shards. 

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Baseball-sized hail destroyed the siding connected a location successful Fremont, Nebraska.

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Hailstones litter the crushed underneath the house. 

With the siding ripped disconnected and damaged, the pinkish location wrapper is visible. 

Siding ripped disconnected a location aft hail reported to beryllium baseball-sized successful Fremont. Nebraska.

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Another photograph shows the homeowner's car importantly dented, windshield pelted successful by hail. The gait successful the backmost is achromatic with much hail. 

In the background, hail covers a neighboring house's roof. 

A destroyed car windshield aft baseball-sized hail fell successful Fremont, Nebraska.

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Hail successful Fremont ranged from egg-sized to baseball-sized stones, with a study successful adjacent Arlington of 4-inch, softball-sized hail. 

Storm reports successful and astir Fremont, Nebraska.

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Softball-sized hail was besides observed successful McClelland, Iowa. 

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The severe upwind menace continues into the weekend, with millions of Americans successful the Midwest and Plains nether the menace done Easter Sunday.