Tornado hits New Orleans area; 1 dead
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Eighteen months after Hurricane Katrina, Stella Chambers' modest red-brick house had finally been repaired, and she was waiting for one last utility hookup to move back in. But the 85-year-old woman never made it.
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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 winter storm brought near-blizzard conditions to much of the U.S. Midwest on Tuesday, forcing schools to close and disrupting transportation across the region, while a deadly New Orleans tornado ripped through New Orleans.
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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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Wind gusting to 60 mph knocked out power to thousands, damaged buildings and felled trees across the Northeast on Wednesday, killing at least one person.
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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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NEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana storm damage experts say a direct hit by Hurricane Ivan could be very bad for New Orleans. With the city&#39;s saucer-shaped topography that dips as much as 9 feet below sea level, there
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Hurricane Ivan lived up to its deadly hype yesterday by slamming the Gulf Coast with a surge that killed at least 23 people people, launched tornadoes and left 1.4 million homes and businesses
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A possible tornado tore through southeast Arkansas town on Saturday, destroying several buildings and leaving at least a dozen people hurt, some seriously, authorities say. Severe storms with tornado threats were moving eastward at about 60 mph and stretched from northern Louisiana to Arkansas, the National Weather Service said.
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Severe thunderstorms spawned tornadoes, large hail and lightening in parts of Missouri, Arkansas and Illinois on Friday, killing a boater trying to get to shore.
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Dozens of tornadoes sliced across southern US states ripping apart homes and shopping malls, killing at least 52 people and injuring hundreds more, officials and US media said Wednesday.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Severe thunderstorms and at least one tornado killed 19 people on Friday when they ripped through Florida in the dead of night, tearing homes to shreds, toppling heavy trucks and leaving a trail of rubble.
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MOBILE, Ala.  - Hurricane Ivan slammed into the  U.S. Gulf Coast early on Thursday with devastating winds and  pounding waves that ripped homes apart, flooded deep inland and  spawned tornadoes that killed at least two people.
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Thirteen people were killed Thursday when tornados slammed at least two Alabama towns, causing widespread damage, media in the southeastern US state quoted officials as saying.
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At least 12 people have been killed by storm and tornadoes brought by Hurricane Ivan, which slammed ashore early Thursday in the Gulf Coast area in southern United States
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More than a dozen tornadoes were reported last night and early today in Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. Officials are trying to confirm the tornado reports and assess the damage as the powerful storm front heads across the Plains toward the Southeast. The National Weather Service declared the storm's projected path a high-risk area, "which is a pretty rare forecast for us," one meteorologist said.
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Call it the instant hurricane. Humberto, which grew faster than any storm on record from tropical depression to full-scale hurricane landfall, surprised the Texas-Louisiana coast early Thursday with 85-mph winds and heavy rain that knocked out power to more than 100,000 and left at least one person dead.