Tornadoes leave trail of death in US
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Death toll of 50 is highest for 20 years as debris hampers rescue in eight southern states
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Severe thunderstorms and at least one tornado killed 14 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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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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Dozens of tornadoes sliced across southern US states, ripping apart homes and shopping malls, killing at least 52 people and injuring hundreds more, officials said Wednesday.
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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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The violent storms that claimed lives in the Midwest and Southeast are part of an annual pummeling that sees an average of 1,000 tornadoes hit the United States. So far this year, there have been more than 150 twister reports.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - At least eight people were killed on Thursday when a tornado tore into the small town of Enterprise in Alabama, CNN reported, one of several twisters that ripped across a broad swath of the U.S. South.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - 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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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - Tornadoes and thunderstorms flattened the land and shattered lives across the U.S. South on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 54 people and injuring more than 150 in the deadliest such storms in nine years.
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CHICAGO, March 1 -- A fierce line of storms stretching from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico spawned deadly tornadoes and blizzards Thursday, killing at least seven people in Alabama, state officials said, and burying chunks of the Midwest under a foot or more of snow.
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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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The Super Tuesday tornadoes were the deadliest in the US in more than a decade.
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NEWTON, Ga.  -- A powerful storm system packing tornadoes that killed at least seven people in Alabama and one other in Missouri is being blamed for nine more deaths in Georgia, a state official said early Friday.
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A rare January outbreak of tornadoes raked the Midwest on Monday, flattening houses in several states and killing at least one person in Missouri.
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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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One person was killed and several injured on Tuesday when a tornado swept through New Orleans neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
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Powerful storms raked Arkansas, spawning a tornado with winds over 158 mph that killed two people and was a factor in a fatal small plane crash, authorities said Thursday.