Tornadoes kill 13 in Alabama; Mo. girl
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Apparent tornadoes killed at least 13 people in Alabama on Thursday, including eight at a high school where students were trapped under a collapsed roof, state officials said. State Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Yasamie Richardson said eight fatalities "are in relation to the high school but whether they are all students or some students and teachers we're not sure."
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At first, rescuers thought it was a doll. Then it moved. In a grassy pasture strewn with toys, splintered lumber and bricks tossed by the tornado's widespread wrath, 11-month old Kyson Stowell was lying face down in the mud, 150 yards from where his home once stood.
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Tornadoes swept through southern Missouri around dawn Thursday, damaging homes and businesses and killing at least one person a few hours after another twister touched down in Kansas, authorities said.
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A system of powerful storms packing tornadoes passed from Alabama into Georgia Thursday night, hitting a hospital and causing at least nine deaths, a state official said.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Tornadoes ripped across the Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday and killed at least 11 people, most of whom had been taking shelter in a high school that collapsed in southern Alabama.
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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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Fourteen people were killed  and dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed when tornadoes  ripped through central Florida on Friday, an official said.
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A powerful storm system with multiple tornadoes collapsed the roof of a mall in Memphis, trapping people inside, and trapped students in dormitories at a college in Jackson, the Nashville Tennessean reported on Tuesday.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Tornadoes ripped across the Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday and killed at least 19 people, most of whom had been taking shelter in a high school that collapsed in southern Alabama.
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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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ATKINS, Ark., Feb. 5 -- Tornadoes tore across Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky on Tuesday in a rare midwinter outbreak of violent weather that killed at least 15 people and injured dozens.
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Candra Pennington and other students scrambled to a bathroom as windows shattered and the ceiling collapsed when a tornado struck Jackson, Tennessee. "We were just shocked at what we saw," she said. In Memphis, a survivor said he's lucky to be alive: "I was thinking about my mom, and I was calling on Jesus."
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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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Tornadoes rip across four US states, causing death and destruction
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas  - At least one tornado touched down in Dumas, Arkansas, on Saturday, injuring a number of people and destroying much of the small town's business district, while a strong winter storm moved across Colorado and into the Midwest.
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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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A tornado destroyed two mobile home parks, killing one person, and blew out windows in buildings across the town, officials said Monday. At least 18 people were injured.