The Nation - News from May 9, 1988

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.