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60-Year Data: Tornadoes a Major Threat Beyond 'Tornado Alley'
By Paul Yeager - AOL News"Tornado Alley," the Southern Plains, has earned its infamous reputation for being the most tornado-prone region in the world. From a climate perspective, though, the tornado threat is relatively high across much of the United States. The recently updated severe report database of the government's Storm Prediction Center, now including data from 1950 through 2010, indicates that tornado touchdowns are indeed most common in the Plains. However, tornado touchdowns have been widespread across the eastern two-thirds of the nation and have dotted the Rockies and the West Coast. (Tornado ...
Killer Storms, Tornadoes Rip Through Carolinas
By not in system - AOL NewsRALEIGH, N.C. - A brutal spring storm raged across North Carolina on Saturday, flattening businesses, flipping cars and destroying homes, leaving an unknown number of casualties from a system already blamed for killing 17 people in four states. North Carolina officials said there were multiple fatalities and they were working to confirm the exact number. Urban search and rescue teams were in two counties looking for residents who might be trapped in damaged buildings. Jim R. Bounds, AP Emergency personnel gather in front of a Lowe's hardware store after it was hit by a tornado in ...
Dangerous Thunderstorms Roll Into the East and South Today
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsDangerous thunderstorms will spread into large portions of the East and South today and tonight, with the threat of damaging wind, large hail and isolated tornadoes extending from western New England to the Gulf Coast. The new storms are associated with the same storm system that produced tornadoes in the Plains and Midwest over the weekend. The most widespread severe weather will occur from later this afternoon through this evening, when unseasonable warmth in advance of the storm -- part of the fuel for the thunderstorms -- will reach its peak. While the possibility of isolated tornadoes ...
Dangerous Storm Threatens Thunderstorms, Tornadoes in Parts of US
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsThe second major outbreak of dangerous thunderstorms and tornadoes is poised to sweep across parts of the United States in the coming days, following quickly on the heels of a storm that produced more than 1,800 severe weather reports earlier this week, including 66 tornado reports. The severe weather is expected to be most widespread on Sunday. The Storm Prediction Center, comprising the government's thunderstorm and tornado forecasting experts, has outlined a large area from the Plains to the Midwest and parts of the South as a potentially dangerous region on Sunday and Sunday night. The ...
Record-Breaking Storm System Roars Across US
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsThe powerful storm system that swept through the Plains on Sunday and to the East Coast today, killing at least seven people in the Deep South, spawned over 1,500 reports of severe weather since Sunday, including a record-breaking 1,200-plus reports during one 24-hour period. The hardest hit regions were the Tennessee Valley, Mississippi Valley and the Southeast, where the majority of the reports piled up from early Monday through early Tuesday. During the 24 hours, more preliminary severe weather reports -- large hail, wind damage and tornadoes -- were tallied than in any other 24-hour ...
Swollen Rivers Spread Flood Risks Across US -- Even in Drought Areas
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsNumerous rivers in the Plains, Midwest, Deep South and Northeast are at risk for flooding through the remainder of the week, even in areas suffering from drought and where little rain has fallen recently. The flooding in the Deep South might seem surprising since the region is experiencing a widespread, intense drought. However, recent heavy rainfall over a small portion of the region, combined with water flowing into rivers upstream where rain has been persistent, has resulted in local flooding. This includes parts of the Mississippi River and Alabama River, where flooding advisories and ...
US 'Heartland' Near Historic Shift From Midwest
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- America's population center is edging away from the Midwest, pulled by Hispanic growth in the Southwest, according to census figures. The historic shift is changing the nation's politics and even the traditional notion of the country's heartland -- long the symbol of mainstream American beliefs and culture. The West is now home to the four fastest-growing states -- Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Idaho -- and has surpassed the Midwest in population, according to 2010 figures. California and Texas added to the southwestern population tilt, making up more than one-fourth of the nation's ...
New Storm Threatens to Bring More Heavy Snow, Rain and Flooding
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsA developing storm system has the potential to bring heavy snow, flooding rain and damaging thunderstorms -- including isolated tornadoes -- from the Plains to the Northeast over the next few days, even as many areas are recovering from wild weather spawned by a powerful storm over the weekend. The new storm system is beginning to develop in the Rockies today, and it will gather strength and moisture once it moves into the Plains later tonight through Wednesday. The weekend storm resulted in a deadly tornado in Louisiana, flooding in the Midwest and intense snowfall in the Northeast. AOL ...
After Dumping a Foot of Snow in Midwest, Storm Heads East
By not in system - AOL NewsMINNEAPOLIS -- A major snow storm dealt another winter wallop to Wisconsin, Michigan and northern Ohio on Monday as it moved east out of Minnesota leaving more than a foot of fresh snow in its wake. Operations were returning to normal at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after the storm prompted Delta Airlines to cancel hundreds of flights Sunday, although hourlong delays were reported. Airport spokeswoman Melissa Scovronski said about 60 departures and 100 arrivals were canceled early Monday, but she said she didn't expect more because the weather was clearing. The National ...
Another Blizzard Roars Through Nation's Midsection
By not in system - AOL NewsTULSA, Okla. -- A second powerful blizzard in a week roared through parts of the nation's midsection on Wednesday, bringing biting winds and dumping more than a foot of snow on areas still digging out from last week's major storm. As the system moved eastward toward the Deep South, it dropped 16 inches of snow on the northeastern Oklahoma town of Pahuska and 14 inches on nearby Eucha, according to Osage County Emergency Management Director Howard Pattison. Salina Journal / AP David Graf shovels snow from his driveway in Salina, Kan., on Tuesday. Bartlesville, about 50 miles north ...
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