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Prairie Wind Elementary students sent to check the weather before recess found something more disrupting to their outdoor playtime than rain.
The students spotted one or more people near their building, holding what appeared to be guns.
The school immediately went into lockdown and Omaha police were called.
Police didn't find any suspects or weapons, said Officer Jacob Bettin. But they did find bullets - the soft kind used in toy Nerf guns, Bettin said.
The school, near 109th Street and Ellison Avenue, returned to normal at 11:10 a.m., about 30 minutes after the lockdown began.
Omaha Public Schools spokeswoman Luanne Nelson commended the children who issued the alert. They spotted something unusual on school grounds and immediately went to adults in the building - just as they have been taught, she said.
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