Posts Tagged ‘national weather service’

Portions of western and central Massachusetts were cleaning up on Wednesday from powerful storms that prompted a tornado warning in a region still recovering from deadly twisters last month. Tuesday’s storms toppled trees and power lines, knocking out power to thousands. Hail, some of its the size of ping pong balls, damaged homes and cars [...]

Six tornadoes — not four — touched down in DeKalb County on April 27, according to information released earlier this week by the National Weather Service. NWS has officially added two more tornadoes to the list of twisters that devastated DeKalb County on April 27. Though much of the damage was on Sand Mountain, where [...]

The Chicago area continued to swelter today, but likely won’t hit a record high and should see 30-degree plunge in temperatures by Thursday after a cold front–with possibly severe thunderstorms–rolls through this evening. By 3 p.m., the second day of hot and humid weather brought temperatures of 94 degrees at O’Hare International Airport, but the [...]

The National Weather Service is confirming that two tornadoes touched down in western Maryland. One happened near Hagerstown Tuesday. The tornado did plenty of damage before dissipating. Andrea Fujii reports residents just outside Hagerstown are cleaning up the damage from the tornado that was caught on tape. “And a terrible noise. It was coming, exactly [...]

Late winter storms are packing a punch to the Rockies, piling snowpack on top of already record levels across the West where officials are concerned about historic flooding, avalanches and mudslides. “At this point, everybody is just sitting back chewing fingernails and waiting because the longer it stays cold and wet, the worse it’s going [...]

A tornado that skipped onto the grounds of a Grand Isle tourist resort spun down a path between guests’ campers and a row of occupied motel rooms Friday afternoon, doing its actual damage only after reaching the lone room that was empty. “It was crazy,” said 22-year-old Renee Vegas, whose parents own the Bridge Side [...]

The National Weather Service says it now has confirmed 16 tornadoes hit Virginia last week. The tornadoes that struck all areas of the state killed five people, including four in Washington County where the most powerful of the twisters hit. Washington County suffered two tornadoes, including one that was 18 miles long and packed winds [...]

The National Weather Service says that the strong winds and rain that lashed Pennsylvania spawned three tornadoes in the state’s midsection. Bruce Budd, an NWS meteorologist, told The Patriot-News of Harrisburg that a tornado touched down in East Hanover Township, Lebanon County on Thursday. Two other tornadoes had been confirmed in Palmyra and at the [...]

Gov. Bob McDonnell told local officials today the state will “marshal all the state and federal resources we can” to help Washington County recover from a devastating tornado that killed four. McDonnell flew this afternoon into the area, where he thanked law enforcement and first-responders at a command station set up at a service station [...]

The National Weather Service says 1 of the tornadoes that killed hundreds in the South had winds of 205 mph and was the first EF-5 tornado in Mississippi since 1966.