Sentences with phrase «killed in a tornado»

I'd read Job and mourn for the children that were killed in the tornado, angry that they were written out and then replaced like possessions.

Her son suffers disabilities from being dropped on his head, her husband gets her pregnant and leaves her, and her parents are killed in a tornado.

One night in 1996, Brenda's sister called to report that their mother and father, who had retired to a cabin in Arkansas, had been killed in a tornado.

Twister's mother was killed in the tornado.

Not exact matches

(Far less, of course, can we explain the fact that similar prayers did not stay the tornadoes that killed 50 people in Wichita Falls, Texas, a few months later — but that is a different problem.)

Then God sent a tornado to kill her parents in 1996.

A tornado touched down in a heavily populated area of Joplin, Missouri, killed 89 people and injuring many more.

The tornado in Joplin has killed over 100 already, and the death toll for 2011 from tornadoes in the United States already stands at almost 500...

On a more serious side, I have do have a problem believing in a personal God who supposedly has my best interests in mind — especially when I see thousands of certainly devout Christians rendered homeless by tornados, or dozens randomly killed by so - called «acts of God.»

In the spring of 2011, a tornado supersystem tore through the state of Missouri and killed several hundred people.

Hundreds of first responders are expected, said Homeland Security spokeswoman Rachel McEneny, including veterans of the July 2011 mass killings in Norway; the May 2011 Joplin, Mo., tornado; and the August 2011 Indiana State Fair stage collapse.

President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in New York City following last month's deadly storm that spawned two devastating tornadoes, killing one woman and causing massive damage.

«Because heat doesn't often kill in «dramatic fashion» like a tornado or hurricane, its deadliness is often understated.»

Just one tornado in Joplin killed almost three times the yearly average of the last few decades.

The difference between Greensburg, Kansas [where an EF5 tornado killed 11 people in 2007], and Joplin was how many people got hit, not the strength of the tornado.

Heat waves are the deadliest weather threat in the United States, killing more people each year than hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined.

At 22, he was in the world's largest recorded tornado near El Reno, Okla., and was at one point only a few cars ahead of Tim Samaras — a man featured on the Discovery Channel's «Storm Chasers» — before Samaras was killed along with his son and another man when their car was picked up and tossed by the storm.

March tornado outbreaks killed 40 people in 1994, 64 people in 1984, 58 people in 1966 and 209 people in 1952.

The 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, was one of the most destructive in US history — killing 161 people, injuring 1,150 and destroying approximately one - third of the city's homes.

The 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, was one of the most destructive in U.S. history — killing 161 people, injuring 1,150 and destroying approximately one - third of the city's homes.

That flooding, combined with tornadoes spurred by the same storm system, killed more than 50 people and caused almost $ 2 billion in damage.

The authors tested their method on two cases: the summer 2012 derecho thunderstorm system that swept across the U.S., and a 2013 tornado that killed several people in the Midwest.

Just south of the border from there, a tornado killed at least 13 people in the Mexican city of Ciudad Acuna on Monday.

Next month, 100 meteorologists will try to finally understand the dynamics of tornadoes — like the one that killed three people in Mena, Arkansas, last night.

But the 1,691 tornadoes in 2011 — the second most for any season going back to the 1950s — included outbreaks that killed hundreds, something not seen since the 1970s.

In an average year, heat kills more people than floods, hurricanes, lightning and tornadoes combined, according to the National Weather Service.

Tim Samaras, a veteran tornado and lightning researcher, was killed in May during a massive Oklahoma tornado.

The tornado that hit Joplin in May 2011 killed 161 people.

In late April 2014, a massive storm swept through the southern United States, spawning 84 tornadoes, killing 35 people, and destroying more than $ 1 billion in propertIn late April 2014, a massive storm swept through the southern United States, spawning 84 tornadoes, killing 35 people, and destroying more than $ 1 billion in propertin property.

On Sunday, tornadoes killed two people and injured 39 in Oklahoma.

Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and an hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday afternoon tornado feared to have killed up to 91 people and injured well over 200 residents.

In 1999 a tornado blew through Oklahoma City, killing 36 people.

More than 1,200 tornadoes rip through the U.S. Midwest in an average year, killing about 100 people and costing millions of dollars in damage.

In the afternoon and evening of 27 April 2011, more than 120 tornadoes ravaged a swath of the southeastern United States, killing 313 people.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters)- Rescue workers searched for survivors on Monday in the rubble left by a wave of tornadoes that ripped through the south - central United States a day earlier, killing at least 16 people in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa.

Doppler radar helped quantify the initial assessment of the impact of the historic outbreak of 305 tornadoes in the last week of April from Texas to New York that killed more than 325 people in the U.S. Southeast.

The Newcastle - Moore EF - 5 tornado ripped through central Oklahoma on May 20, 2013, killing 24 people and leaving behind more than $ 2 billion in damage.

For the third year in a row, tornado season has gotten off to a slow start, as indicated in the graphic below That's a big contrast to the active 2011 season — the second highest on record with 1,691 twisters reported, including a single outbreak that killed 316 people.

Then Toni's ghost visits Cassie and reveals that in two nights, a powerful EF3 tornado will rip into a dance hall, killing those three kids.

In Joplin, Mo., after the tornado in May killed 160 people, the ASPCA took 1,300 lost or abandoned dogs and cats into an emergency animal shelteIn Joplin, Mo., after the tornado in May killed 160 people, the ASPCA took 1,300 lost or abandoned dogs and cats into an emergency animal sheltein May killed 160 people, the ASPCA took 1,300 lost or abandoned dogs and cats into an emergency animal shelter.

These moves include such sights as Ram spinning around in the air like a tornado and firing off his Uzis (which is most effective when there's lots of enemies to kill and lots of things to blow up), running like a charging bull and taking enemies down like an American football player with an iron shoulder, and using his gun most effectively for snappy head shots, amongst other silly and stylish moves.

A statistically significant and large false - alarm effect is found: tornadoes that occur in an area with a higher false - alarm ratio kill and injure more people, everything else being constant.

What if two thousand Americans were killed in a single year by tornadoes?

Last January, when there was a rare winter tornado outbreak, and some talk of human - driven global warming playing a role, I consulted a batch of meteorologists and climate scientists who have studied trends in the categories of tornadoes that kill people, which are those designated F2 through F5 on the five - step Fujita scale of intensity (gauged by the amount and type of damage that is wrought).

He also noted in a blog post that the number of people killed by tornadoes during the past year — 7 — was the lowest since 1899.

2012 - 2013 had the longest period ever before measured without someone being killed by a tornado in the United States (220 days) but 2012 was a very warm year for the U.S..

With at least 10 tornadoes ripping through North Texas in one night this week — leveling neighborhoods, killing six and injuring dozens — it might be tempting to call the twisters yet another instance of climate - fueled weather.

Republican factory owners killed your family and friends in the catastrophic blizzards, floods, tornadoes, massive wildfires and other climate change that has been wiping out the bible - belt.

Almost all of the trees in Greensburg were killed during the tornado.

The most severe tornado to hit North Dakota struck Cass and Clay counties in Minnesota and traveled west toward Fargo in 1957, killing 10, injuring hundreds and causing tens of millions of dollars in property damage.