In this Friday, June 2, 2017, photo provided by Cecilia Wessels via The Canadian Press, Theunis Wessels mows his lawn at his home in Three Hills, Alberta, as a tornado swirls in the background. Cecilia Wessels, who took the image of her husband to show the tornado to her parents in South Africa, said that […]
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Mississippi tornado wreaks havoc, kills 4
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Rain was pouring down in the pre-dawn darkness, and the wind was picking up as Darryl McMorris ran for his daughters’ bedroom. The windows started blowing out as he dove on top of his girls, grabbing one under each arm as he tried to protect them. “As soon as I did that […]
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Crews search for missing after tornadoes hit Texas, Arkansas
VAN, Texas — Emergency responders searched through wreckage in parts of Texas and Arkansas early Monday after a line of tornadoes battered several small communities, killing at least two people and injuring dozens of others. As many as 10 people were still missing at daybreak, raising the possibility that the number of dead could climb. […]
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Video: Tornado rolls across Texas plains
As storms developed Tuesday across the Great Plains to North Texas, a tornado was spotted in Ralls, Texas, and captured on a camera on a police cruiser.
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Illinois tornado kills woman, destroys homes in small town
#Fairdaletornado work continues throughout the night. Additional resources will be brought in at 8 am to begin additional searches of damaged structures Posted by Rockford Fire Department on Friday, April 10, 2015 FAIRDALE, Ill. — Crews searched for missing residents Friday morning after at least one tornado brought chaos to a tiny northern Illinois town, […]
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Major storm sweeps through Southern California
LOS ANGELES — Californians got a lot of what they wanted and not too much of what they didn’t from a major storm that finally blew out of the state Friday. After drenching Northern California the previous day, the storm dumped up to 5 inches of desperately needed rain in Southern California. A landslide left […]
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Tornado touched down in St. Albans, weather service confirms
ST. ALBANS — Officials with the National Weather Service’s Gray office confirmed a tornado touched down in the Somerset County town during a storm Tuesday. John Jensenius, a morning coordination meteorologist with the Gray office, said Thursday morning the twister was on the ground for about 2¾ miles, and the width of the twister was […]
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Yes, it was really a tornado that hit St. Albans on Tuesday
ST. ALBANS — The National Weather Service says a tornado touched down earlier this week in Somerset County. Meteorologist John Jensenius, who surveyed the damage on Thursday, tells WMTW-TV that the town experienced an EF1 tornado with winds of 80 to 90 miles per hour. Crews have been cleaning up the mess since the severe […]
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Funnel cloud spotted in Caribou
CARIBOU — Officials say powerful thunderstorms disrupted Memorial Day activities in northern Maine with heavy rain, hail and gusts topping 40 mph. Meteorologist Joe Hewitt from the National Weather Service in Caribou says one of Monday’s storms produced a confirmed funnel cloud but that it didn’t touch down. He said there also were unconfirmed reports […]