A lethal storm system buffeted the East Coast on Friday after generating deadly tornadoes, lightning and large hail from Canada to the Gulf Coast the day and night before.
A tornado pummeled Pensacola, Florida, Thursday, severely damaging a church with an attached day care center, destroying homes and leaving thousands of homes and businesses without power, the mayor said.
Tornadoes ripped across southern and central Britain on Monday, tearing tiles off roofs and uprooting trees, Meteorological officals said.
Central Florida residents were shaken but unhurt Friday after a tornado blew roofs off buildings and knocked down power lines overnight.
As the world warms, the United States will face more severe thunderstorms with deadly lightning, damaging hail and the potential for tornadoes, a trailblazing study by NASA scientists suggests.
Another round of thunderstorms brought more rain and a flash-flood warning to an already deluged southwestern Wisconsin on Monday, forcing residents below four dams to evacuate.
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The mayor of this western Kansas town -- razed by a massive tornado that killed 10 people -- vowed Tuesday that Greensburg's 1,600 residents will band together to build "a brand-new town."
The tornados that devastated parts of Kansas and Oklahoma could happen anywhere. And while there is generally little to no warning at all when these storms strike, there are some things you can do to protect your family and your home from disaster.
More than 75 tornadoes ripped through the Plains on Saturday, just 24 hours after a deadly storm killed nine people and leveled Greensburg, Kansas.
A lethal storm system buffeted the East Coast on Friday after generating deadly tornadoes, lightning and large hail from Canada to the Gulf Coast the day and night before.
A tornado pummeled Pensacola, Florida, Thursday, severely damaging a church with an attached day care center, destroying homes and leaving thousands of homes and businesses without power, the mayor said.
Tornadoes ripped across southern and central Britain on Monday, tearing tiles off roofs and uprooting trees, Meteorological officals said.
Central Florida residents were shaken but unhurt Friday after a tornado blew roofs off buildings and knocked down power lines overnight.
As the world warms, the United States will face more severe thunderstorms with deadly lightning, damaging hail and the potential for tornadoes, a trailblazing study by NASA scientists suggests.
Another round of thunderstorms brought more rain and a flash-flood warning to an already deluged southwestern Wisconsin on Monday, forcing residents below four dams to evacuate.
Wildfires, waterspouts and a new set of world wonders made the headlines this week, and you participated in the coverage of these events by sending in your photos and video and showing us how you see the news.
The mayor of this western Kansas town -- razed by a massive tornado that killed 10 people -- vowed Tuesday that Greensburg's 1,600 residents will band together to build "a brand-new town."
The tornados that devastated parts of Kansas and Oklahoma could happen anywhere. And while there is generally little to no warning at all when these storms strike, there are some things you can do to protect your family and your home from disaster.
More than 75 tornadoes ripped through the Plains on Saturday, just 24 hours after a deadly storm killed nine people and leveled Greensburg, Kansas.
Rescue crews Sunday resumed sifting through the rubble of a small Kansas town destroyed by tornadoes Friday night.
Tornadoes tore across the nation's midsection for a second night Saturday, 24 hours after a storm leveled Greensburg, Kansas.
Authorities in the southwest Texas border town of Eagle Pass have largely completed search-and-rescue operations in the wake of a powerful tornado that killed 10 people.
President Bush assured tornado victims Saturday that help is on the way as he toured towns in Alabama and Georgia that were among the hardest hit by Thursday's storms.
Search parties were going door-to-door Friday in Americus, Georgia, after deadly storms destroyed the town's Red Cross headquarters and shut down a hospital.
Storms stampeded throughout the central and southeastern United States on Thursday, leaving at least 11 people dead.
A possible tornado shredded several businesses and homes in a small Arkansas town Saturday, injuring about a dozen people, some of them seriously, police told a local TV station.
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Stunned residents, working in the rain Saturday, poked through debris for pieces of their lives deposited the day before by central Florida storms and a tornado whose winds reached 160-165 mph.
The Villages was a shambles Friday.
At least 19 people were killed in one county Friday as catastrophic storms packing tornadoes raked across central Florida.
A suspected tornado damaged 20 homes and knocked down trees south of Atlanta on Sunday, but no one was hurt by the storm, local officials said.
A tornado hit a residential area of London on Thursday, injuring at least six people, according to ambulance service staff.
At least eight people were killed and nearly 20 injured Thursday when a tornado ripped through a mobile home park in this small town west of Wilmington, North Carolina, officials said.
At least four tornadoes were reported to have touched down Monday morning in southeast Texas and southern Louisiana, the National Weather Service said.
A tornado struck about 20 miles north of New York City during rush hour Wednesday, causing heavy damage to a Westchester County store, the National Weather Service and a store spokesman said.
Tropical Storm Alberto's winds reached 70 mph Monday as the storm blew toward Florida's northeast Gulf Coast, where the National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane warning from the Tampa Bay area to near Tallahassee.
State Farm acted "recklessly" and "with malice" in handling insurance claims from dozens of families whose homes were damaged when a wave of tornadoes, including the strongest in recorded history, swept through Oklahoma in 1999, a jury has decided.
Tornadoes and thunderstorms brought high winds, hail and floods to east Texas on Saturday after Friday night storms ripped through homes and tossed airplanes into each other at an airport near the Oklahoma border.
The death toll in Tennessee from severe weather rose to 12 on Saturday, as storms battered the Southeast from Mississippi to Georgia before dissipating over the Atlantic Ocean.
A line of severe thunderstorms and multiple tornadoes swept parts of four states on Friday, killing at least 11 people in Tennessee, authorities said.
Authorities in parts of the Midwest and South were assessing damage and counting the dead Monday from thunderstorms that killed at least 27 people.
Nine people were killed Sunday as severe weather raked parts of four states.
Severe weather that included at least one tornado struck Hutchinson, Kansas, on Thursday, but worse for some residents were the fires that inexplicably broke out after the storm passed.
Swarms of tornadoes killed at least 10 people across the Midwest, shut down the University of Kansas and damaged so much of Springfield, Illinois, on Monday that the mayor said "every square inch" of town suffered some effects.
Storms moving across the South on Thursday brought winds strong enough to rip off roofs and blow apart barns. At least two deaths were attributed to the weather, and thousands of people lost power.
A possible tornado damaged parts of Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and surrounding businesses in pre-dawn hours Thursday in suburban New Orleans, said police in Kenner, west of the city.
Storm-hit towns and communities in the Carolinas, Florida and Alabama are cleaning up in the wake of a string of suspected tornadoes that swept the Southeast on Friday.
Residents in the northeastern United States braced Wednesday for strong thunderstorms that are rolling their way after spawning tornadoes in five states and causing two deaths.
All residents of a Vanderburgh County mobile home park were accounted for Tuesday, two days after a tornado made a 43-mile run from Kentucky across the southern Indiana countryside, killing 22 people.
Searchers pulled a body Monday from a lake adjacent to an Indiana mobile home park ravaged by a tornado, bringing the total dead from the Sunday morning twister to 22.
Since the 19th century, damage surveys have included reports of tornadoes moving entire houses while keeping them intact, driving pieces of straw into tree trunks in high-speed winds, and tearing asphalt pavement away from the road like an orange peel. The following facts can help distinguish between myth and reality concerning tornadoes.
At least one tornado ripped through southern Indiana near Evansville before dawn Sunday, killing at least 22 people and injuring about 230.
A man who witnessed the tornado that swept through a Wisconsin neighborhood, flattening homes and leaving one man dead, said "the sky just exploded" as the twister moved in.
Severe thunderstorms accompanied by hailstones and tornados tore across parts of Europe on Thursday and Friday, a trail of destruction in Germany, France and Britain.
Once a Category 4 Hurricane, Emily was downgraded to a tropical depression early Thursday, nearly 24 hours after it made landfall near San Fernando, Mexico. But the storm still posed a significant flooding threat as it dumped torrential rain on the region.
Nine hours after making landfall as a powerful Category 3 hurricane, Emily's top winds dropped to 70 mph, just low enough to make it a tropical storm Wednesday afternoon.
Storms drenched parts of the nation's mid-section Saturday, and at least 30 twisters were reported in several states in the first major outbreak of tornadoes this year.
When wild weather decides to blow into town, it's always unstoppable and often unforgiving. But over the last few decades, several high-tech tools have improved man's ability to predict Mother Nature.
A graduate of the University of Nebraska and former meteorologist at KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City, both in the heart of Tornado Alley, CNN's Chad Myers has ample professional and personal experience with twisters.
In a blizzard, two feet of snow won't fall at your house while your neighbor gets a dusting. Hurricanes rarely pummel one part of town and totally skirt another, nor does an earthquake rattle one building and leave one next-door unshaken.
Severe storms that included tornadoes overturned mobile homes, downed trees and toppled power lines Wednesday across Mississippi.
An apparent tornado swept through northwest Palm Bay, Florida, on Sunday, damaging more than a dozen homes and causing at least one minor injury, authorities said.
A ferry boat with 260 people on board capsized overnight when it was hit by a tornado near the Bangladesh capital, drowning at least 83 people, local officials said.
Holiday travelers were stuck with long waits for flights at several major airports Wednesday as severe weather hit the eastern half of the United States.
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The remnants of Hurricane Ivan had reached as far north as Massachusetts on Saturday after pounding the Gulf Coast in Florida and Alabama and spawning tornadoes and flooding in the Southeastern United States.
Santana Sullivan and her fiancé, Chris Ammons, picked through piles of debris that used to be their mobile home in the Florida Panhandle's rural Calhoun County.
After wreaking havoc on the Alabama and Florida coasts, the remnants of Hurricane Ivan punished the Southeastern United States on Friday, knocking out power to more than a million customers and flooding parts of Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina.
Remnants of Hurricane Ivan soaked the Southeast Thursday evening after the storm came ashore with full force in Alabama and spawned tornadoes that killed eight people.
including a police officer and Channel 4 reporter Victoria Warren -- reported seeing funnel clouds in northwest Jacksonville Thursday afternoon, and the National Weather Service immediately issued a tornado warning.
The severe weather that brought 84 tornado sightings across eight states Sunday was responsible for three deaths, taking the death toll from the weekend storms to eight, officials said Monday.
Severe storms and tornadoes swept through several states Sunday, killing one person, smashing homes and downing trees and power lines, authorities said.
Eight people died in the collapse of the Milestone Tavern when a tornado destroyed large parts of the town of Utica, Illinois.
The death toll from Tuesday evening's tornadoes rose to eight Wednesday afternoon, LaSalle County Coroner Jody Bernard said.
A graduate of the University of Nebraska and former meteorologist at KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City, both in the heart of Tornado Alley, CNN's Chad Myers has ample professional and personal experience with twisters.
A major winter storm is taking aim at central New York and Pennsylvania, according to the National Weather Service, and some mid-Atlantic states are bracing for another day of dangerous icy conditions Tuesday.
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