This year’s weather on the Southern Plains has an odd twist: Oklahoma has yet to record its first tornado, the deepest into the year it’s gone without one since 1962. Although a drought has dried up moisture needed to fuel …
Bad weather moved into the Ohio River Valley on Tuesday after a series of powerful storms hit the Plains, including deadly tornadoes that destroyed homes and overturned vehicles in Oklahoma. National Weather Service meteorologist Rick Smith said Tuesday’s risk was …
Applications to build storm shelters have spiked a month after a tornado touched down in Moore, Oklahoma. Moore spokeswoman Deidre Ebrey says officials there have noticed an increase in the number of people applying for storm shelters since the March …
A small tornado that touched ground briefly near Arcadia was given a preliminary rating of EF0 by the National Weather Service in Norman on Monday. Weather service meteorologist Marc Austin said the tornado that touched down briefly shortly after 5 …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (EMA) said that federal disaster aid has been made available to the state of Arkansas and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by severe storms, tornadoes and …
Officials say no tornado sirens warned residents in Quapaw of the imminent danger of the storm because a tornado warning was never issued for the county. According to state emergency management officials, sirens warning residents are usually sounded when a …
Storm surveyors have released more information on a tornado that killed one person in Quapaw earlier this week. The National Weather Service in Tulsa says the EF2 tornado started at 5:29 p.m. Sunday about 3 miles southwest of Quapaw. The …
Oklahoma hasn’t had a tornado or a tornado warning for more than eight months, though with bad storms expected in the state Sunday, it is doubtful Oklahoma will be able to match its longest streak ever without a twister. Things …
Work has begun on a temporary medical center in Moore, Okla., which was left without emergency care after a massive tornado destroyed the city’s hospital in May. The Norman Transcript reported Thursday that the new emergency and outpatient center should …
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 …