By Jillian MacMath, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer Jan 30, 2012; 10:14 AM ET Debris is loaded on a truck near 25th and Jackson in Joplin, Mo., on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. A massive cleanup effort is underway in Joplin after a tornado destroyed muc...
When the roaring stopped, when the debris stopped whirling and the glass stopped breaking, the 4-foot wooden cross remained on the wall.
Ranee Roberts feels lucky to have survived the impact of a tornado that hit her Alabama convenience store in April.
Ala. Tornado 'Pulls' Woman From Inside House National Weather Service officials say damage surveys are continuing in several parts of Alabama after an outbreak of severe weather. At least two tornadoes roared across the state Monday, killing...
CBS This Morning - Rare winter tornado kills 2 in Alabama A rare winter tornado sweeps through Alabama, leaving 2 dead. Also, snow and ice caused some serious trouble on the roads in Utah. "CBS This Morning" co-host Erica Hill reports. Fro...
At least two people have died and dozens were injured in a severe storm that hit the US state of Alabama on Monday.
We interecepted a tornadic supercell just to the SW of De Witt, AR. There was a confirmed tornado on the ground, but we could not get a good visual on the tornado. We see what appeared to be a potential rain wrapped funnel, but through pictures and vid...
We just got done intercepting a tornadic supercell with a confirmed tornado around the De Witt, AR area when we ran across some wind damage. The damage is not believed to be a tornado, but could be damaging straight line winds. A semi was overturned, a...
It’s been eight months since Joplin, Mo., was devastated by a tornado, and now the city’s Convention and Visitors Bureau is offering a map designed to facilitate visiting the city’s most devastated places.
Powerful spring-like storms have lashed parts of Kentucky with high winds that uprooted trees and downed power lines.
msnbc.comVideo: NC residents lashed by wicked weathermsnbc.comRALEIGH, NC — At least 15 people were injured and 60 buildings damaged — among them 30 severely damaged homes — when a possible tornado struck two counties in western North Carolina, t...
At least 15 people were injured and at least 60 buildings were damaged when a possible tornado struck in western North Carolina.
abc13.comWeather Service Confirms Mission Bend Damage Caused by TornadoFortBendNowThe National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado was responsible for damage to homes in a Mission Bend neighborhood during yesterday's severe weather. The we...
Weather 2011: Going to extremesMinneapolis Star TribuneWeather memories tend to fade quickly. But two events make 2011 stand out: the May tornado that sliced through the heart of the metro area and the lightning-sparked, drought-driven September Pagami...
It was a Christmas Day to remember in Melbourne as it was lashed by damaging winds, hailstones, flash flooding and even a tornado.
An uncommon December tornado on Tuesday ripped of part of a hospital roof in a southwest Louisiana city, causing several patients to be evacuated, but no injuries.
By Meghan Evans, Meteorologist Sep 5, 2011; 7:35 AM ET Excerpt from a video posted by Youtube user linalia who was waiting out a storm at the Mohawk rest area off I-90 on Sunday. The terrifying video of a tornado crossing the New York Thruway ne...
By Vickie Frantz, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer Jun 11, 2011; 11:30 AM ET Laura Cobb, 11, cleans debris from a bathtub while helping with clean-up at her destroyed home in Joplin, Mo., Monday, May 30, 2011. Four members of her family escaped injur...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Missouri police officer who was struck by lightning while helping with rescues after a massive tornado ripped through Joplin has died. Riverside Police Chief Greg Mills says 31-year-old officer Jefferson "Jeff" Taylor died Frida...
PHIL CAMPBELL, Ala (Reuters) – Five-year-old Garrett LeClere survived the devastating twister that struck Phil Campbell, Alabama on April 27 with two broken arms and a fractured skull. His parents did not make it. Rescuers searched for a day before ...
Posted on May 27, 2011 by Anthony Watts While Joe Romm, Bill McKibben, and others follow the fear card script to do everything and anything they can to link severe weather to global warming, they are clearly fighting a losing battle for public opini...
The tornado that ripped through Joplin, Missouri this weekend was the deadliest on record in the past 60 years, with the death toll at 117. Rescue efforts are currently underway, as up to 30 percent of the city has been damaged and Missouri Gov. Ja...
By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist May 21, 2011; 2:48 PM ET A destroyed home and trees with all their limbs gone in Hallam, Neb., after the 2004 tornado tore through. (Photo from the Omaha/Valley, Neb., office of the National Weather Se...
By Katie Storbeck, Meteorologist May 21, 2011; 5:47 AM ET "On top of interrupting any outdoor activities, the thunderstorms could also cause trouble for travelers both on the ground and in the air." Eastern Arkansas and Missouri into northeaster...
by Brad Johnson. Cross-posted from the Wonk Room. “Flooding along the Mississippi River has set a new water level record,” according to the National Weather Service. “The massive flood churning its way down the Mississippi...
By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist May 14, 2011; 10:17 AM ET "This afternoon is when the first round of violent thunderstorms will ignite" Strong thunderstorms capable of unleashing damaging winds and hail will not just threaten the ea...
The Mississippi River continues to rise to heights never seen before along its course through the states of Mississippi and Louisiana. At Natchez, Mississippi, the river has already hit 59 feet, breaking the previous all-time record of 58 feet set in t...
SMOKEMONT, N.C. – On the North Carolina-Tennessee line, more than 20 miles of trails and a number of campsites in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are closed because of extensive tree damage from tornadoes that ripped through the area. Park o...
By Bill Deger, Meteorologist May 2, 2011; 4:37 AM ET Heavy rain and locally gusty thunderstorms returning to the Deep South early this week will hamper cleanup and recovery efforts in communities devastated by last week's deadly tornado outbrea...
PLEASANT GROVE, Alabama (Reuters) – The government ramped up efforts on Saturday to help thousands of homeless victims of the country's second deadliest recorded tornado outbreak, which killed at least 350 people. President Barack Obama, who surveye...