Tornadoes kill at least 17
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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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High winds, heavy rain and tornadoes pounded parts of the Midwest and the South, killing five people and stranding others in trees and shelters while forecasters warned Saturday that the stormy weather was expected to continue.
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A series of severe storms in southern Arkansas catapulted cars into trees, crumpled businesses and ripped mobile homes off the ground Saturday. At least 27 people were injured.
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Residents tried Thursday to put their lives back together in a swath of the South raked by tornadoes that killed 55 people on Tuesday night and early Wednesday.
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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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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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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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Unseasonably warm air touched off a flurry of tornadoes across the Midwest on Monday night, killing two people in Missouri and smashing homes and cars, and knocking over railroad cars, in a swath extending from Oklahoma to southern Wisconsin.
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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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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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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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Tornadoes rip across four US states, causing death and destruction
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Rescuers in Florida search for survivors after storms and a tornado kill at least 19 people in the US state.
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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.
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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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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - More than 150,000 Swedes were without power Tuesday and police said another person was reported killed in fierce storms that struck northern Europe over the weekend, bringing the death toll to 17.
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A line of thunderstorms fed by warm weather continued spinning off unusual January tornadoes Tuesday, killing a man in Arkansas and carrying a cow close to a mile.