Oilfield fire

Bill Coe/billcoephotos.smugmug.com

Smoke and flames billow from a crude oil tank farm northeast of Benkelman Sunday afternoon, in a fire suspected to have been ignited by lightning. More information will be released as it becomes available. McCook residents took to their basements and tornado shelters Saturday night as the sirens sounded about midnight as a result of a wall cloud passing directly over the city after a tornado was briefly sighted on the ground in Decatur County.