The impact of a deadly summer tornado that struck western North Dakota is still being felt as work continues to improve the area’s weather warning system. The EF2 tornado slammed into the Prairie View RV Park in Watford City around …
The National Weather Service is taking steps to improve weather radar coverage for western North Dakota after a deadly tornado in the area raised awareness of gaps in coverage. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has committed to studying whether …
Leaders in the central Illinois city of Washington say they’re hopeful last year’s tornado won’t affect the area’s previous double-digit growth rate. The (Peoria) Journal Star reports that Washington’s population jumped 39.6 percent between 2000 and 2010. The population grew …
Residents of this rural central New York town on Wednesday picked through debris from homes battered by a deadly tornado, and utility crews worked to restore power in several Eastern states hit by severe storms. In all, five people died …
Ten-year-old Kai Heuangpraseuth will return to a new Plaza Towers Elementary in the fall, built on the same spot where seven of the boy’s schoolmates died last year after a top-scale tornado reduced it to a pile of rubble. Christopher …
Leaders in Faulkner County say a preliminary assessment shows that 328 homes were destroyed in Sunday’s tornado. Faulkner County Attorney David Hogue says 710 homes have been assessed so far after the EF4 tornado hit the county. Along with the …
A temporary hospital building is slated to open this year in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore after a deadly tornado struck the community’s hospital in May. Health officials promised to rebuild a permanent hospital after demolition crews began tearing …
The deadly tornado that struck near Oklahoma City late last week had a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles (4 kilometers) and was the second top-of-the-scale EF5 twister to hit the area in less than two weeks, the National Weather Service …
A deadly tornado that swept through east central Indiana 60 years ago could cause much more destruction if it swept through today because of suburban sprawl. The April 9, 1953, twister originated in Illinois and ended near Albany. It measured …
Two people have been sentenced to prison for fraudulently obtaining federal disaster benefits after a deadly tornado hit Joplin, Mo., in May 2011. Fifty-one-year-old Wanda G. McBride of Joplin was ordered Friday to spend six months in federal prison without …