Posts Tagged ‘Arkansas’

According to the Stratis Times: The death toll from a slew of tornadoes rose to 324 on Friday, making the terrible storms the third-deadliest outbreak of twisters in US history and the worst in nearly 80 years. On Friday, the number of confirmed tornado-related deaths increased to 228 in Alabama; to 34 in Mississippi; and [...]

Houses looked like they had been blown inside out with the walls down and furniture spilling into the streets. In a parking lot at the University of Alabama, the tornado left behind 20 smashed cars, many of them piled on top of each other. “I don’t want to think now in how much I lost,” [...]

Per The Age: The death toll from a series of storms and tornadoes across the southern United States soared to at least 295 on Thursday, with 195 confirmed fatalities in the state of Alabama alone.

Tornadoes and violent storms ripped through seven southern states, killing at least 284 people in the country’s deadliest series of twisters in nearly four decades. The clusters of powerful tornadoes — more than 160 reported in total — combined with storms to cut a swath of destruction heading west to east over several days. In [...]

A horrific storm system that killed more than 250 people in six states across the South is one of the worst the country has experienced in more than four decades. In the 24-hour period that ended at 8 a.m. CT Thursday, 163 tornadoes had been reported by eye witnesses. One of those, a mile-wide tornado [...]

Killer tornadoes during the first four months of this year have already claimed more lives than all of last year, possibly making this the deadliest tornado outbreak since the Super Outbreak of 1974, according to the nation’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. The death toll had surpassed last year’s before deadly storms pounded the [...]

The threat of severe thunderstorms continued Wednesday to hang over portions of the Deep South and into the Northeast, after another round of violent weather swept through the country the day before. Forecasters warned of severe weather conditions in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia, while threats of thunderstorms circulated in New Jersey and the New [...]

Destructive storms that tore across the country’s midsection left at least nine people dead after smashing uprooted trees into homes in Arkansas and ripping apart the only school in one tiny Oklahoma town, officials said Friday. A tornado swept through Tushka in southeast Oklahoma town late Thursday, killing two sisters in their 70s, Salvation Army [...]

SCOTLAND, Ark. – Leveled homes, overturned vehicles and uprooted trees were scattered across central Arkansas on Saturday after several tornadoes ripped through the state, killing a woman and injuring two dozen others, authorities said. At least two more tornadoes touched down in the region late Saturday, according to the National Weather Service, but no injuries [...]