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Deadliest Tornado Outbreak in Decades Kills Nearly 300
By not in system - AOL NewsPLEASANT GROVE, Ala. -- Firefighters searched one splintered pile after another for survivors Thursday, combing the remains of houses and neighborhoods pulverized by the nation's deadliest tornado outbreak in almost four decades. At least 297 people were killed across six states - more than two-thirds of them in Alabama, where large cities bore the half-mile-wide scars the twisters left behind. The death toll from Wednesday's storms seems out of a bygone era, before Doppler radar and pinpoint satellite forecasts were around to warn communities of severe weather. Residents were told the ...
Survival Stories Emerge From South's Tornado Tragedy
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsPoignant tales from tornado survivors are pouring in -- of muffled screams from under piles of debris, university students hit in the head by a flying Jeep Cherokee and a 6-year-old boy, unconscious but alive, pulled from the rubble as his wounded father wept. At least 178 people are believed to have died in one of the South's most vicious tornado clusters ever recorded. These are the stories of those who escaped that fate. *** University of Alabama student Adam Melton was sitting on the porch of his off-campus house in Tuscaloosa when the storm hit. The Tuscaloosa News / ...
Widespread, Dangerous Tornado Outbreak Enters Day Three
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsDay Three of the tornado outbreak will target a large portion of the eastern U.S. today and tonight, with a risk of tornadoes from New York state southward to the Gulf Coast, including a high risk in portions of Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. The threat of dangerous thunderstorms will linger along the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday. The experts at the government's Storm Prediction Center warn that "an outbreak of tornadoes and damaging winds" is likely in the high-risk area through tonight. A significant threat exists in the area outlined as having a moderate risk -- the second ...
Storms Could Spawn Tornadoes, Life-Threatening Flooding This Week
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsThe final week of April will be similar to the first three, with dangerous thunderstorms over a large portion of the U.S. The forecast includes the potential for tornadoes, life-threatening flash flooding and large hail in highly populated regions from the southern Plains to the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic region from today through Wednesday. Potential tornado-spawning thunderstorms will stretch from eastern Oklahoma and northern Texas to Pennsylvania today and tonight, encompassing the cities of St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Dallas. The greatest risk within this larger area appears to be in ...
More Dangerous Storms Hitting US Today, Friday
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsWhile it might sound like a meteorological broken record, a storm system moving out of the Rockies is set to produce dangerous thunderstorms, including damaging winds, large hail and possibly tornadoes, over a significant portion of the Plains and Midwest today and Friday. The region from Kansas and Missouri southward to northern Texas and northern Louisiana will be the region most likely to be hit with damaging storms through tonight, including Kansas City, Oklahoma City and Dallas. The risk area will stretch from Oklahoma to Ohio on Friday and Friday night, encompassing St. Louis, ...
As US Recovers, Another Tornado Outbreak Possible This Week
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsWith parts of the U.S. still recovering from a destructive and deadly three-day tornado outbreak, a storm system moving from the Rockies to the East Coast may very well spawn another round of tornadoes this week, especially from the Midwest to parts of the Deep South. There were nearly 270 reported tornadoes last week, with the death toll reaching at least 44 in six states. At least 21 of those deaths were in North Carolina, according to The Associated Press. The first tornadoes hit Thursday in Oklahoma, where two were killed. Officials also reported seven deaths in Arkansas, seven in ...
Lowe's Staff Save Dozens as Storm Hits North Carolina Store
By not in system - AOL NewsSANFORD, N.C. - More than 100 employees and customers at a home improvement store, crammed shoulder-to-shoulder seeking safety from one of the deadly storms that ripped through the South, screamed in near unison once the steel roof curled off overhead, the store's manager said Sunday. They all made it out alive Saturday, thanks to quick action by Lowe's store manager Michael Hollowell and his employees, who carried out an emergency response plan they had learned. They herded everyone to the windowless rear area of the store, away from the direct hit out front. ...
North Carolina Gets Worst of Storms That Ravaged Swath of US
By not in system - AOL NewsASKEWVILLE, N.C. - A tornado-spewing storm system that killed at least 45 people across half the country unleashed its worst fury on North Carolina, where homes broke apart, trees snapped and livestock were swept into the air. Residents in the capital city and rural hamlets alike on Sunday mourned the dead, marveled at their own survival and began to clean up devastated neighborhoods. Observers reported more than 60 tornadoes across North Carolina on Saturday, but most of the state's 21 confirmed deaths occurred in two rural counties. A thunderstorm spawned a tornado that killed four people ...
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 ...
Spring Storms Kill 17, Destroy Family in Alabama
By not in system - AOL NewsBOONE'S CHAPEL, Ala. - The home Willard Hollon had shared with his son and granddaughters is gone now, as is the one where his daughter lived, both twisted from their foundations by a tornado and tossed into the woods nearby. The storms that devastated the Deep South destroyed his family, too: Willard, his son Steve and daughter Cheryl all were killed when the winds roared through. The storms that smacked the Midwest and South with howling winds and pounding rain left 17 people dead in four states. The system plowed through the Carolinas on Saturday, bringing flash floods, hail and reports of ...
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