Tornadoes

Off The Charts Drought In Texas, Tornadoes In New York (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green


MSNBC has an alarming report about the extreme weather conditions happening across the country. In Texas, half the corn crop is dried up, lakes have d...

Rare Look Inside A Tornado Caught On Tape (VIDEO)

Posted 07.09.2009 | Home


The "Today Show" interviewed Mike Bettes of "The Weather Channel" and showed the extraordinary video he captured of the complete life cycle of a torna...

Tornadoes Kill 8 People In Oklahoma, Others Injured

AP | TIM TALLEY | Posted 03.14.2009 | Home


LONE GROVE, Okla. — Rescuers sorted through bricks and shattered plywood Wednesday in search of more victims of a deadly tornado that blasted th...

NOAA Makes it Official: Extreme Weather Due to Climate Change

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.28.2008 | Green


Janet Ritz

Congress, candidates and electorate take note: The extreme weather the U.S. has been experiencing is due to climate change and is expected to become more extreme in the future.

Receding Cedar Rapids Floods Revealing 'Incredible Destruction'

AP | ALLEN G. BREED and JIM SALTER | Posted 06.23.2008 | Home


IOWA CITY, Iowa — A week's work of frantic sandbagging by students, professors and the National Guard couldn't spare this bucolic college town f...

Storms pop up in Plains as forecasters sound alarm

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home


WICHITA, Kan. — Tornadoes dropped onto the Great Plains on Thursday after forecasters warned of a potentially historic outbreak, causing some da...

US on track to break record for tornadoes

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home


WASHINGTON — Another week, another rumbling train of tornadoes that obliterates entire city blocks, smashing homes to their foundations and kill...

What's with the Weather? The La Niña-Tornado Connection

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living


Janet Ritz

Why has 2008 has seen a record outbreak of tornadoes in the United States from California to the Midwest, from the South through the central plains, to the Appalachian states?

Tornadoes rake Oklahoma as Midwest tallies damage

AP | JEFF LATZKE | Posted 06.01.2008 | Home


OKLAHOMA CITY — A slow-moving storm packing tornadoes and hail battered rural Oklahoma on Saturday, destroying several buildings, tearing up tre...

Tornadoes rip through Colorado, Kansas; 1 killed

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 05.30.2008 | Home


WINDSOR, Colo. — A large tornado skipped through several northern Colorado towns on Thursday, destroying dozens of homes, flipping tractor-trail...

China Earthquake, Florida Fires, US Tornadoes, Burma Cyclone Ravage The Angry Earth

Huffington Post | Posted 07.30.2008 | Home


***UPDATE TUESDAY, MAY 13*** China Earthquake: The AP is reporting today on another major school collapse triggered by the 7.9 magnitude earthquake t...

Tornado deaths underscore risks of taking shelter in cars

AP | ALAN SCHER ZAGIER | Posted 05.19.2008 | Home


SENECA, Mo. — More than a third of the 23 people killed by a tornado that smashed parts of Oklahoma and Missouri over the weekend died in cars, ...

Severe Weather Mars Vote In Some States, Hampered Obama

MSNBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Storms drew a line down the middle of the nation Tuesday, spawning tornadoes to the south, dumping snow to the north, and dropping heavy rain on parts...