Sentences with phrase «deadly tornado»

The shelter is serving as a refuge for many «families» torn apart by deadly tornadoes.

Here's a deeper discussion of efforts to clarify productive steps, both in science and policy, in the face of deadly tornado outbreaks, extraordinary midwestern flooding and climate change.

December's intense storm system also caused a weeklong string of deadly tornadoes throughout states including Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas, the likes of which haven't occurred since a 1982 El Niño.

Tornado patterns have been especially wonky as of late: 2011 marked the second - deadliest tornado season for the U.S., with 1,700 tornadoes (including the particularly destructive Joplin one) and 553 deaths, according to the AP.

At 550 fatalities, 2011 was the fourth - deadliest tornado year in U.S. history.

The single deadliest tornado in America's...

Joplin, Missouri (CNN)- On May 22, this blue - collar town on the edge of the Ozark Mountains was dealt the most deadly tornado since modern record - keeping on twisters began in 1950.

We've seen it in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina slamming into the Gulf Coast in 2005, and after deadly tornadoes swept through Oklahoma in 2013.

CNN: Deadly tornadoes churn across Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas Severe weather rampaged across the U.S. heartland, claiming at least eight lives across Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma, in what has already become a historic spring storm season.

As communities across the storm - raked stretch of the South cope with the aftermath of the country's second deadliest tornado outbreak, it's worth reviewing the prime sources of vulnerability behind the terrible death counts: the substantial growth in southern populations in recent decades, a dearth of basements and the enduring popularity of mobile homes.

Residents of Oklahoma were very acquainted with deadly tornadoes but many had a similar feeling that allowed them to dismiss warnings.

Generally, people felt that deadly tornadoes just didn't happen in that part of Missouri.

In response to May's deadly tornado in Joplin, Mo., NAR's REALTOR ® Relief Foundation and the Missouri REALTORS ® Relief Foundation raised $ 73,000 for relief efforts.

«This is the ninth - deadliest tornado year on record so far,» said Jack Hayes, director of NOAA's National Weather Service.

Natural disasters pose a serious threat to homeowners in Kentucky, and Owensboro in particular has a history of deadly tornadoes.

«Supercells also produce the strongest and most deadly tornadoes.»

The single deadliest tornado in America's...

We hear almost daily about a storm that resulted in dangerous flooding or deadly tornados and left a grim scene in its wake.

Why was 2011 the deadliest tornado season we've seen in 75 years?

This year already ranks as the deadliest tornado season in decades.

When bad things happen — school shootings, deadly tornadoes, hurricanes — all he knows of those events is what I tell him.

2011 is already one of the deadliest tornado seasons in U.S. history.

The deadliest tornado year for the U.S. occurred in 2011 when there were 553 tornado - related fatalities.

It was a supercell that formed to the west of Oklahoma City that spawned the deadly tornado that day.

Following the deadly tornado that tore through the city of Joplin, Mo., in 2011, researchers have developed new building codes they hope will better protect people in the face of a EF - 5 category tornado.

She fears the «different kinds of diseases» she assumes they possess and could spread, and when Minny has the presumption to use the inside bathroom during a deadly tornado, Hilly fires her.

Severe droughts, deadly tornadoes and threatening floods are taking place around the world.

Understanding — and Surviving — Tornadoes Whether you live in «Tornado Alley» or not, spring brings to your state the increased possibility of a deadly tornado.

Hundreds of dogs and cats peer out from their cages at the Joplin Humane Society, some with cuts, infections and broken bones from the deadly tornado that turned their lives, like those of their owners, upside down.

American Humane's emergency response teams worked around the clock for an entire month to help the pets who were displaced by the deadly tornadoes in Moore, Oklahoma.

Most of the more than 200 Central Florida pets left homeless by February's deadly tornadoes have been reunited with their owners or taken in by new families.

The deadly tornado outbreak in the Midwest yesterday makes this final point particularly germane.

I was led to domed designs for tornado - resistant school buildings as I sifted for information on the particularly devastating tornado that struck Vilonia, Ark., Sunday night (the tornado hit three years and two days after a deadly tornado in 2011).

But the deadly tornado outbreak Sunday night illustrated, once again, why it's time for communities at risk to consider some new approaches to building — and learning — safely in harm's way.

Today we're bringing you the amazing story of Greensburg, Kansas which, on May 4, 2007, was ripped to shreds by a deadly tornado.

This deadly tornado killed two.

News of the April 27 Alabama tornadoes was overshadowed by the deadly tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., May 22.

In Joplin, Mo., which had a deadly tornado rip through the town on May 22 that leveled a big portion of the town and left thousands homeless, real estate professionals also have reported home sales skyrocketing.

A deadly tornado in Joplin, Mo., on May 22 destroyed nearly 7,000 homes and left thousands homeless.

A deadly tornado in Joplin, Mo., on May 22 leveled a big portion of the town, destroying nearly 7,000 homes and damaging another 875, and leaving thousands homeless.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied a federal aid request from Illinois for damage it faced in a deadly tornado that swept through the state in November.