A tornado knocked down powerlines and devastated homes in Story County Tuesday night

A little more than an hour had passed Tuesday after a tornado hit June and Larry Handsacker’s house off of 650th Avenue near Nevada, and their family was already on the scene, pulling valued possessions from the wreckage. Which, in June Handsacker’s case, are her dolls. “All my dolls!” she said, pointing to a nearly intact china cabinet just inches from where the tornado cleaved her home in half on Tuesday afternoon. ”And those were just the dolls I bought, not the ones I made.” She was in the dining...