Powerful storms, tornadoes hit Midwest
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The U.S. Midwest was battered by rain, thunderstorms, and tornadoes late on Monday and early on Tuesday, while the central Plains was spared much of the harsh weather, which was a relief for cattle already stressed by previous storms.
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Powerful storms raked Arkansas, spawning a tornado with winds over 158 mph that killed two people and was a factor in a fatal small plane crash, authorities said Thursday.
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Heavy rain and strong thunderstorms pounded the Great Plains, producing large hail and damaging winds in Oklahoma and Kansas.
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Storms drew a line down the middle of the nation Tuesday, dumping snow to the north, spawning damaging tornadoes to the south and dropping heavy rain on parts of Ohio still recovering from major floods months ago.
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Tornadoes rip across four US states, causing death and destruction
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Highways were hazardous for holiday travelers Sunday and thousands of homes and businesses had no electricity in the Midwest as a storm blustered through the region with heavy snow and howling wind
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Showers and thunderstorms brought much-needed rain to parts of the Southeast on Monday. The lower Mississippi Valley, in particular, got strong to severe storms.
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Severe weather in the U.S. Midwest and Southeast overnight bedeviled air traffic, knocked out power to large sections of Chicago, Illinois, and pushed rivers and streams out of their banks.
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MILWAUKEE, Dec. 23 -- A storm blustering through the Midwest on Sunday with heavy snow and howling wind made highways hazardous for holiday travelers and knocked out electricity to thousands of homes and businesses.
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A powerful storm system pounded a large swath of the nation's midsection on Tuesday, spawning everything from heavy snow and numbing cold to hail and possible tornadoes, and forecasters warned more could be on the way.
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Authorities were searching for victims after a wide swath of thunderstorms packing tornadoes, high winds and hail swept through the South.
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The second big winter storm to hit the central United States in less than a week slammed parts of Nebraska and Iowa with near-blizzard conditions on Thursday and spun off tornadoes that killed a child in Missouri.
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LOUISVILLE, Sept. 23 -- High winds, heavy rain and tornadoes pounded parts of the Midwest and the South, leaving at least eight people dead, stranding people in cars, forcing others from their homes and leaving thousands without power.
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Tornadoes plowed across the South from Texas to Alabama, killing four people, wrecking homes and businesses in rural areas and the New Orleans suburbs, and turning trees to kindling.
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Storms whipped across Iowa, pulling down a nursing home's wall, dropping softball-size hail and dumping up to six inches of rain that raised fears of flooding.
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A rare January outbreak of tornadoes raked the Midwest on Monday, flattening houses in several states and killing at least one person in Missouri.
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High winds, heavy rain and tornadoes pounded parts of the Midwest and the South, killing five people and stranding others in trees and shelters while forecasters warned Saturday that the stormy weather was expected to continue.