The market just got a little tighter. Omaha NB

[Schllc]

The airport appears to have been decimated. The video looks like what happened in Nashville. 
a LOT of planes lost. 
was going to post a video I have put don’t know how. 

[redbaron1982]

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1ce07d3/damage_from_the_tornado_at_eppley_airfield_in/

[Ragsf15e]

Damn, that’s terrible. I hope nobody was hurt, but even the loss of those airplanes hurts me.

[Echo]

Oh NO!  Hate to see this.  :(

[LANCECASPER]

That's horrible!!  A lot of beautiful airplanes that will never fly again.

[toto]

Sounds like only minor injuries 

https://www.ketv.com/article/tornado-warning-has-been-issued-for-multiple-nebraska-counties/60620673

[Schllc]

All of those planes were in hangars!!

[LANCECASPER]

12 hours ago, Schllc said:

All of those planes were in hangars!!

The ones that were just tied down are probably now in Western Iowa somewhere. . .

 

 

[Hank]

@Echo, hope everything is alright over your way, Scott! This was ugly, just watched the recording of the weatherman withnthentornado forming over the airport, that had been broadcast live.

[Echo]

21 minutes ago, Hank said:

@Echo, hope everything is alright over your way, Scott! This was ugly, just watched the recording of the weatherman withnthentornado forming over the airport, that had been broadcast live.

Thankfully Eastern Iowa, at least Cedar Rapids, didn't have any violent weather with this storm.  I had watched a YouTube weather video a few days ago and Omaha was where the prediction was most intense.  So sorry for all those owners impacted by this event.  Since 2008 Cedar Rapids experienced two horrible floods of Cedar River and a Derecho (sustained wind event) that were terrible.  We have had more than our share of really bad weather events over the last 15+ years.  Thanks for thinking of me Hank.

[LANCECASPER]

This was not the tie-down area - these were the hangars.

 

https://www.3newsnow.com/weather/weather-blog/confirmed-tornadoes-from-fridays-tornado-outbreak

Maximum wind speeds of 165 mph.

At least some of the slower airplanes got to experience Mooney speeds on the way out .. lol

[ArtVandelay]

Looks like they were steel frames too, nothing left, I wonder if they weren’t anchored and the hangars were just lifted up.

[AH-1 Cobra Pilot]

1 hour ago, ArtVandelay said:

Looks like they were steel frames too, nothing left, I wonder if they weren’t anchored and the hangars were just lifted up.

We often get a little wind in Nebraska, so I guarantee they are/were well-anchored.  (We usually see 100mph winds at least once a year.)

[Schllc]

1 hour ago, ArtVandelay said:

Looks like they were steel frames too, nothing left, I wonder if they weren’t anchored and the hangars were just lifted up.

They were anchored. They wouldn’t stand up if they weren’t.
Metal buildings in general, and especially big open span ones, are notorious for failing in shear.   Just picture a cardboard box with no top or bottom, and you push on a corner.  The box racks like a parallelogram, this is what wind does to a metal building. 
I landed in Nashville years ago a few months after the tornado hit that airport. 
There were parts of metal buildings 80’ up in trees two miles away. The FBO told us over 100 planes were lost there. It looked like a giant parking lot. 
For as infrequently as tornados strike, it would be prohibitively expensive to build a hangar that would tolerate those wind loads. 

[EricJ]

15 hours ago, ArtVandelay said:

Looks like they were steel frames too, nothing left, I wonder if they weren’t anchored and the hangars were just lifted up.

It's very expensive to build something that will survive a direct hit from a strong tornado.   It can be done, it's just not practical for the typical structure.

[Pinecone]

Tornados have unbelievable power.

I used to work for FEMA.  I went to SD after an F5 hit a small town. The ONLY thing left were the streets.

[EricJ]

2 hours ago, Pinecone said:

Tornados have unbelievable power.

I used to work for FEMA.  I went to SD after an F5 hit a small town. The ONLY thing left were the streets.

Probably Manchester.   I remember when that happened (I'm fron SD).  Nobody moved back and rebuilt.    

[phxcobraz]

1 hour ago, EricJ said:

Probably Manchester.   I remember when that happened (I'm fron SD).  Nobody moved back and rebuilt.    

My family's farm wasn't far from Spencer, I had just moved to AZ before the tornado hit. I think the town is about half as populated these days vs before the tornado.

[Pinecone]

Spencer.  That was the one.