Southern tornadoes kill 54
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The death toll from the outbreak of tornadoes in the South rose to 52 today after Tennessee authorities reported four more deaths -- two in Sumner County and two in Macon County. The trail of death stretches across four states. Rescue crews still are searching for people who may be buried under storm wreckage.
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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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Severe weather howled through much of the nation Sunday, producing damaging tornadoes in the South that injured nearly 30 people and treating winter-weary parts of the Midwest to freezing rain, snow and flooding.
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Tornadoes tore across Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, killing at least three people.
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By BOB JOHNSON ENTERPRISE, Ala. - Tornadoes ripped through Alabama and killed at least seven people Thursday, including five at a high school where students became pinned under debris when a roof collapsed, state officials said.
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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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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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Tropical Storm Jeanne has pummeled the north coast of Haiti, killing 54 people and leaving another 150 unaccounted, a UN spokesman said Sunday.
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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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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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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Tornadoes swept across the Southern United States and killed at least 17 people across three states, ripping up a hospital and a high school, CNN and Fox News reported on Friday.
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Tornadoes ripped across the  Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday, killing at  least 14 people including eight in the southern Alabama town of  Enterprise, emergency management officials said.
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Communities across the  U.S. South grieved for the dead and tried to pick up their  lives on Thursday after the deadliest round of tornadoes in  nearly a quarter century killed 57 people.
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The storm leapt past its recent predecessors Friday to become the deadliest American hurricane since Floyd in 1999, killing 33 as it carved its slow, wet, brutal signature on the Southeast.
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Tornadoes swept through southern Missouri at dawn Thursday, damaging homes and businesses and killing a 7-year-old girl a few hours after another twister touched down in Kansas
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Vietnamese rescue workers are searching for nearly 50 people missing after severe tropical storm Durian ravaged the country's south, bringing devastation and killing at least 54 people.
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Tornadoes across the southern United States killed at least 20 people as they tore up a hospital and high school where students huddled for shelter, authorities said on Friday, a day after the rampage.