2024 is nation’s 5th-warmest year on record so far
![A powerful tornado near Waverly Road in the Lincoln, Nebraska, metro area on April 26, 2024. NOAA's National Weather Service in Omaha, Nebraska, issued 48 tornado warnings that day—the most the office has ever issued in a single day. (Image credit: NOAA National Weather Service Office Omaha, Nebraska, and Katie Wargowsky) A powerful tornado near Waverly Road in the Lincoln, Nebraska, metro area on April 26, 2024. NOAA's National Weather Service in Omaha, Nebraska, issued 48 tornado warnings that day—the most the office has ever issued in a single day.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/2024-05/testtwister2.png?h=f805ecf0&itok=Y8MazpHC)
A powerful tornado near Waverly Road in the Lincoln, Nebraska, metro area on April 26, 2024. NOAA's National Weather Service in Omaha, Nebraska, issued 48 tornado warnings that day—the most the office has ever issued in a single day. (Image credit: NOAA National Weather Service Office Omaha, Nebraska, and Katie Wargowsky)