Tornadoes Strike Eastern Texas, Killing 1
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Tornadoes touched down Tuesday in eastern Texas, killing a woman, injuring three people, and destroying several homes after days of rain throughout the region.
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Hurricane Humberto made landfall on the Texas coast as a Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (137 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Thursday.
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PAISLEY, Fla. _ At least 14 people died, many others were injured, hundreds lost homes and thousands remained traumatized as a vicious swarm of thunderstorms and predawn tornadoes ripped through central and northeast Florida Friday.
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A string of deadly tornadoes have struck the southern United States, with reports Friday of at least 16 dead, including five children killed when the roof of their school collapsed.
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One person was killed and at least  19 people were injured on Tuesday when a tornado swept through  New Orleans neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane  Katrina.
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A tornado tossed cars down streets, damaged dozens of homes and tore off roofs in southwest Florida, officials said Monday. One person was injured by flying the debris.
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Hurricane Humberto crashed ashore along Southeast Texas early Thursday, bringing heavy rains and maximum sustained winds of up to 80 mph as it made its way to eastern Louisiana, the National Weather Service said.
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Two tornadoes swept through south-central Missouri Friday afternoon, damaging more than 100 homes and tearing off part of a roof at a middle school moments after a tornado drill. No deaths had been reported.
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Tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Ivan claimed at least two lives and waves lashed onto shore as the US Gulf Coast today felt the first impact of the storm whose full fury was expected during the night.
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Storms that raked the Plains and Southeast on Thursday tossed a mobile home in Missouri, killing both people inside, and spawned a tornado in Florida that sent mall shoppers and children at a day-care center running for cover.
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A snowstorm hit the Texas Panhandle early Thursday, leaving at least three people dead and causing a 40-vehicle pileup that shut down an interstate for several hours, officials said.
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Eight people died when an apparent tornado struck a high school in Alabama. Nine people were killed in Georgia.
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More than 160,000 people fled to high ground or crowded into schools and town halls as yet another powerful typhoon battered the eastern Philippines today, where 1,000 are dead or missing from an earlier storm.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Tornadoes ripped across the Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday and killed at least eight people, most of whom had been taking shelter in a high school that collapsed in southern Alabama.
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Humberto, the first hurricane to hit the U.S. in two years, sneaked up on south Texas and Louisiana overnight and crashed ashore Thursday with heavy rains and 85 mph winds, killing at least one person.
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Severe storms were forecast across the southern Plains and into the lower Mississippi Valley on Saturday. Strong winds, large hail and tornadoes were expected to develop in Texas.
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President Bush flew to Enterprise, Ala., today to survey the devastation caused by a massive tornado that hit Thursday afternoon and to comfort a town grieving the loss of eight students, killed in their high school as they huddled in a hallway seeking to avoid the storm's wrath.