Severe weather, including high winds and very large hail, was expected to pummel the Southern Plains and Midwest on Friday, a day after tornadoes were reported across five states, forecasters said. Trained spotters collected at least 17 reports of tornadoes or tornado damage in Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska and Oklahoma before dawn on Friday, the…
Thunderstorms were lashing parts of the Midwest with potent winds and large hail on Tuesday afternoon, only days after an outbreak of strong tornadoes tore through parts of the central U.S. and blizzard conditions affected the northern tier. The similarly volatile storm system was expected to deliver extreme weather conditions to many of the same…
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — At least three people were killed and two dozen were injured in tornadoes that raked Arkansas on Friday, and a roof collapse killed at least one person at a concert venue in Illinois, as a storm system swept through the country’s midsection, from Wisconsin to Texas, officials said. In Arkansas,…
Widespread and potentially severe thunderstorms, including the possibility of damaging winds and tornadoes, are likely on Friday for over a dozen states in the Midwest and the mid-South, potentially affecting over 30 million people. The thunderstorms, which could bring heavy rain and flash flooding threats, are likely to begin in the middle-to-lower Mississippi Valley and…
After powerful storms swept through the South on Friday, leaving at least 12 people dead and hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity on Saturday, officials urged residents to use caution as downed power lines and uprooted trees posed lingering threats. Heavy rains, severe winds and tornadoes damaged homes and businesses in Alabama, Arkansas, the…
Another week of storms. The toll of so many days of rain in California became increasingly apparent on Tuesday: An apartment building roof in South San Francisco flew off early in the morning. A sinkhole opened in Chatsworth and swallowed two cars. Two motorists died when a tree fell on them on a highway just…
A line of storms moving across North Texas spawned at least two confirmed tornadoes on Tuesday, including one near Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, where passengers were briefly urged to shelter in place and hundreds of flights were delayed. There were two reports of injuries and “multiple reports of homes and businesses damaged” in Wise County,…
More than 100 homes were damaged and at least 40 people were unaccounted for on Wednesday after powerful storms swept through southwestern Virginia and brought heavy flooding and landslides, local officials said. More than 4.5 inches of rain fell on Buchanan County, which borders Kentucky and West Virginia in southwestern Virginia, on Tuesday night, according…