Tornadoes kill 19; school collapses
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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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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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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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Tornadoes killed seven people in Alabama, including 5 at a High School; one girl was killed in Missouri
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Tornadoes tore across Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, killing at least nine people.
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The Super Tuesday tornadoes were the deadliest in the US in more than a decade.
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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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State-by-state look at deaths and damage caused by the string of tornadoes that tore across the South and the Midwest:
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Bandaged and bruised teenagers wiped at tears Monday as a southeast Alabama community began burying the eight students killed when a tornado tore apart their high school.
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At least 19 persons were killed by tornadoes and electrical storms that hit central Florida, the spokesman for Lake County told AFP, as crews searched the area for more victims.
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One man pulled a couch over his head. Bank employees rushed into the vault. A woman trembled in her bathroom, clinging to her dogs. College students huddled in dormitories. Tornado warnings had been broadcast for hours, and when the sirens finally announced that the twisters had arrived, many people across the South took shelter and saved their lives.
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Displaced central Florida residents spent the night in shelters after a line of storms packing at least one tornado killed 19 people. A massive cleanup effort awaits them. Gov. Charlie Crist planned to tour the area Saturday with FEMA's director, assessing what one official called "complete devastation" of homes, businesses and churches.
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Under sunny skies, members of the Church of God in Lady Lake, Florida, held their morning worship service today amid the remnants of their destroyed sanctuary, leveled by a pre-dawn tornado. The National Weather Service said three tornadoes were responsible for killing at least 20 people and causing catastrophic damage.
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Tornadoes swept through southern Missouri around dawn Thursday, damaging homes and businesses after another twister touched down in neighboring Kansas, authorities said.
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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 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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Folding chairs stood on a freshly cleared football field Thursday as a high school wrecked by a tornado prepared for graduation ceremonies, with seats set aside in memory of two seniors who died in the storm.