Stormy Sunday
NORFOLK - Strong thunderstorms passed across the region Sunday afternoon and evening. Southeastern Madison and southwestern Stanton counties were under a tornado warning between 8:30 and 9:00 last night after spotters reported a funnel cloud eight miles west of Madison or about 18 miles southwest of Norfolk. Other areas across northeast Nebraska reported heavy rain, hail the size of golfballs and strong winds of 60-to-70 miles per hour which brought numerous tree limbs and some power lines down. One tree limb fell on a car in Walthill. Trees were also down in the Cottonwood Campground area just east of the Gavins Point Dam near Yankton. Power was out in some parts of West Point around 9:30 p.m. Rainfall varied -- 2.53 inches in Laurel and an 1.95 at Coleridge to just three hundredths of an inch at the Norfolk airport. .22 of an inch fell downtown at the studios of 106 KIX.
