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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 ...
At Least 85 Dead as Tornadoes Devastate South
By not in system - AOL NewsTUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Fierce storms obliterated large swaths of land from Mississippi to Georgia, wiping out homes and businesses, causing a nuclear power plant to use backup generators and even forcing the evacuation of a National Weather Service office. The death toll was staggering - at least 85 people killed in five states, including 61 in Alabama alone, a number that was likely to increase. One of the hardest-hit areas was Tuscaloosa, a city of more than 83,000 and home to the University of Alabama. The city's police and other emergency services were devastated, the mayor said, and ...
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 ...
1 Dead as Storms Pound South for 2nd Straight Day
By not in system - AOL NewsVILONIA, Ark. - Violent weather ripped through the South for a second straight night, killing at least one person in Arkansas, damaging more than 100 homes in a rural East Texas community and overturning a trailer at an oil drilling site in Louisiana. The latest round of severe weather Tuesday night and early Wednesday came a day after a series of powerful storms killed 10 people in Arkansas and one in Mississippi. The National Weather Service issued a high-risk warning for severe weather in a stretch extending from northeast of Memphis to just northeast of Dallas and covering a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Earth Day: The Planet's Most Extreme Places [PHOTOS]
By Dave Thier - AOL NewsHuman beings thrive in the middle of the road. Essentially tropical animals, we don't like it to be too hot, too cold, too dry or too moist. Our biological clocks are geared toward an even balance of light and dark. We're pack animals, but big crowds start to cause problems. But human beings are also notoriously bad at doing what's best for us. And so we push ourselves to places we were never meant to survive in, from the bottom of the ocean to the top of the world. In honor of Earth Day 2011, we take a look at some of the most extreme places on the planet. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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