Posts Tagged ‘Oklahoma’

Per the Seattle Times: Weather scientists are retracing the footprints of this week’s monstrous tornadoes the way detectives would investigate a crime scene: talking to witnesses, watching surveillance video and taking the measurements of trees ripped from the ground. The result will be a meteorological autopsy report on the disaster, revealing how many twisters developed [...]

Per the Associated Press: A Georgia salon owner and her two daughters — Sky and Stormy — climbed inside a tanning bed while a tornado ripped the roof off their business. A Virginia couple scrambled under their garage’s wooden steps after a twister ripped off their home’s roof. Mississippi mobile home park residents found shelter [...]

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,” [...]

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 [...]

Massive tornadoes tore a town-flattening streak across the South, killing at least 266 people in six states and forcing rescuers to carry some survivors out on makeshift stretchers of splintered debris. Two of Alabama’s major cities were among the places devastated by the deadliest twister outbreak in nearly 40 years. As day broke Thursday, people [...]

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 [...]

Powerful storms pounded parts of Mississippi and Alabama with heavy rain, thunderstorms and numerous tornadoes Friday. There were numerous reports of damage to homes, businesses, vehicles and an oil refinery near Melvin, Alabama, but no immediate word of injuries in the outbreak. Several businesses were damaged in Clinton, Mississippi, state Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeff [...]

One of the greatest threats for severe weather AccuWeather.com meteorologists have seen this season so far will take shape on the southern Plains over the next couple of days. Tornadoes and window-smashing hail will be among the threats with these thunderstorms. Biggest Threat for Severe Weather: Thursday through Saturday The thunderstorms will develop in response [...]

More flooding problems will likely arise today in Oklahoma and Texas as drenching downpours continue to inundate the southern Plains. Earlier this weekend, heavy showers and thunderstorms doused cities and towns in this area with inches of rain. In Wichita Falls, Texas, 3.45 inches of rain poured down on Saturday. This shattered the daily rainfall [...]