Mar 31 Tornadoes slam Arkansas, shredding homes and tossing cars By Andrew DeMillo, Associated Press A tornado has plowed through Arkansas' capital and surrounding areas, reducing rooftops to splinters, toppling vehicles and tossing debris on roadways as people scrambled for shelter. Continue reading
Mar 31 Watch 2:39 Large tornado plows through Little Rock, Arkansas By PBS NewsHour A tornado plowed into Little Rock, Arkansas, and nearby towns Friday afternoon with reports of heavy damage and many people injured. Video shows the tornado moving across neighborhoods, flipping cars and tearing away rooftops. It was all part of a… Continue watching
Mar 31 Tornado emergency issued for Little Rock, Arkansas, days after Mississippi storm By Andrew DeMillo, Associated Press The violent twister was seen in video posted online plowing through neighborhoods and business districts of Little Rock and surrounding areas. Continue reading
Mar 28 In small towns of Mississippi, tornado death toll feels like losing family By Robert Bumsted, Associated Press, Michael Goldberg, Associated Press/Report for America Friends and neighbors say retirees Lonnie and Melissa Pierce lived a quiet life in the Mississippi Delta before a powerful tornado dropped a semi-truck onto their home like a bomb. Continue reading
Mar 27 How to help residents in need after the deadly Mississippi tornado By Hannah Grabenstein From the Red Cross to a Mississippi animal shelter, here's how to help the survivors of this weekend's deadly southern storms. Continue reading
Mar 03 Midwest preps for heavy snow, Texas and Louisiana recover from tornadoes and power outages By Associated Press A storm system is marching eastward after spawning likely tornadoes in Texas and Louisiana that damaged homes, businesses, a university campus and left thousands without power. Continue reading
Feb 27 Tornadoes strike Southern Plains as Northeast, California brace for winter storms By Rick Callahan, Christopher Weber, Associated Press Meanwhile, some Michigan residents faced a fifth consecutive day without power following last week’s ice storm. Continue reading
Jan 13 Tornado death toll grows in Alabama and Georgia By Kim Chandler, Jeff Martin, Associated Press Rescuers raced Friday to find any survivors trapped in debris after tornadoes barreled across parts of the South in a system that killed at least nine people in Alabama and Georgia and inflicted heavy damage on Selma, a flashpoint of… Continue reading
Jan 12 Multiple people killed in Alabama as giant storm system slams through South By Kim Chandler, Jeff Martin, Associated Press A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South spurred a tornado on Thursday that shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma, Alabama, a city etched in the history of the civil rights movement. Continue reading
Jan 04 Massive winter storms dump on California, Upper Midwest By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press Major winter storms are dumping on California and a stretch of the Upper Midwest — as a possible tornado damaged homes in the South. Continue reading