The Nation - News from May 9, 1988
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Strong thunderstorms moved across parts of the Mississippi Valley and the plains and Midwest, spawning tornadoes in Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska and dropping hailstones up to 2 1/2 inches in diameter. A tornado killed a mother and her baby, and injured her husband, at their mobile home southwest of Omaha. Injuries were reported as a tornado touched down at Elwood, Ill., south of Joliet, tearing the roof off a condominium. Aircraft were overturned at the Rockford, Ill., airport as winds gusted to 81 m.p.h., and more than two dozen tornadoes swept through Iowa.
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