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Swindled

106. The Tornado (Kim Neiman)

Swindled

A Concerned Citizen

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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A village clerk in Nebraska leads the charge to rebuild after a catastrophic tornado and becomes the focal point of an international mystery. Prelude: Twin tornadoes devastate Pilger, Nebraska. –––-–---------------------------------------- BUY THE SWINDLED SOUNDTRACK ON VINYL –––-–---------------------------------------- BECOME A VALUEDLISTENER™ Spotify Apple Podcasts Patreon –––-–---------------------------------------- DONATE: SwindledPodcast.com/Support CONSUME: SwindledPodcast.com/Shop –––-–---------------------------------------- MUSIC: Deformr –––-–---------------------------------------- FOLLOW: SwindledPodcast.com Instagram Twitter.com TikTok Facebook Thanks for listening. :-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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But the real high instability is down here over Nebraska. That's why there is a particularly dangerous tornado watchbox out for parts of eastern Nebraska

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And that is where the Stanton tornado is or the tornado near Stanton Nebraska is in that very unstable

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air so watch out that storm has plenty of juice to work with and will likely be

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ongoing for a while to come. A cluster of storms formed over eastern Nebraska just afternoon on

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Monday June 16, 2014. A warm front followed closely behind the black clouds that had just rained hell upon the big cities. The cool air and the warm air eventually collided, swirling together, creating a massive rotating supercell that had meteorologists at the National Weather Service questioning the accuracy of their instruments.

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At 338 PM, a tornado watch turned into a tornado warning. A small funnel cloud touched

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down in an open field just east of Madison. It was an E.F. Zero on the enhanced Fujita scale, which means no damage and wind speeds that did not exceed

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85 miles per hour. Even more pathetic was that the tornado, if you even want to call it that, only lasted two minutes.

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But as we all know, it's never wise to taunt Mother Nature.

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