Black and white photograph (8.5 x 6 cm.) showing wood debris from demolished building after the April 6, 1919 tornado, Omaha, Nebraska. On the reverse side written in pencil is: 1919 Omaha Tornado.
The April 6, 1919 tornado came down at about 6:00 on Sunday afternoon, at almost the same hour and same day of the week as the devastating 1913 tornado that dropped down six years earlier on Easter Sunday, March 23, and followed about the same general path. The 1919 wind storms came through Lincoln and Elmwood, Nebraska before dropping down a funnel in Omaha at Center and 55th Streets. It raged to the northeast across Dundee, following 49th Street from Farnam to Cuming Street, then leaped to Clifton Hill neighborhood and followed 45th Street northward. The tornado came after a sultry day and was preceded by some lightening and hail. Several homes and properties were damaged but there were no deaths, although Mrs. J. G. Micklen and her son and daughter were hospitalized. Source: Omaha World-Herald newspaper, April 7, 1919, p. 1-2.
