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tornado stories: 39 news summaries

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Balloon-Boy Stunt Not So Strange for Wacky Dad

Unsurprisingly, Richard Heene is a shameless self-promoter

Oct 19, 09 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the balloon-boy debacle now exposed as a hoax, the spotlight has turned on Richard Heene's wacky and not-so-camera-shy behavior. The 48-year-old amateur scientist/wannabe reality TV star tried his hand at acting and standup comedy in the early '90s in Hollywood. And though that ended up being a "total... More »

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(Newser) - A Homeland Security plan to build a $700 million lab handling highly infectious animal diseases in Kansas' 'Tornado Alley' probably isn't the best idea it's had, the Washington Post reports. A withering report from the Government Accountability Office found that the DHS based its decision on a flawed, hastily done... More »

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tornado • Kansas • Department of Homeland Security • foot and mouth disease • GAO • Government Accountability Office


 Cowboys Staffer 
 Paralyzed by 
 Tent Collapse 

Two others require surgery after winds knocked over practice facility

May 4, 09 1:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - A scouting assistant for the Dallas Cowboys is permanently paralyzed from the waist down after a practice canopy collapsed on him in strong winds over the weekend, reports the Dallas Morning News. His spine was severed in the accident, doctors said. The special teams coach and assistant athletic trainer also... More »

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(AP) - A reported tornado killed two people and injured 30 today in central Tennessee as a line of storms that killed three people a day earlier in western Arkansas crept across the South, emergency officials said. Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Donnie Smith confirmed the deaths Friday in Murfreesboro, about 30... More »

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 3 Dead in Ark. Tornado 


Apr 10, 09 1:49 PM CDT
(AP) - A tornado that swept through the mountain community of Mena, Ark., killed three people and injured at least 30 others, authorities said today after a house-to-house search. The twister descended quickly on Mena shortly after 8 last night after a series of siren blasts warned residents of tornadoes in the... More »

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Scientists Ready Biggest Tornado Chase Ever

50+ researchers to go on monthlong twister hunt across middle US

Apr 7, 09 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Researchers from 19 universities in four countries are preparing for a massive $10.5 million tornado chase, LiveScience reports. The project, dubbed VORTEX2 (Verification Of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment), will send 50 scientists in 40 research vehicles chasing super-cell thunderstorms, which tend to generate the nastiest tornadoes, across South Dakota,... More »

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FEMA Is Also in the
Prevention Business

Agency funds preparation projects; some scientists want to see more

Feb 15, 09 2:03 PM CST
(Newser) - FEMA may be best known for its response in times of crisis, but it also tries to provide help before disaster strikes, NPR reports. In the tiny Missouri hamlet of Niangua, a tornado shelter mostly funded by the agency will soon be able to house the entire town—a relief... More »

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Tornadoes Kill 8 in Oklahoma; at Least 14 Injured

An unusual flurry of February twisters prove deadly in Midwest

Feb 11, 09 6:34 AM CST
(AP) - Eight people died and 14 more were injured in a small Oklahoma town as a flurry of tornadoes touched down across the state, ripping off roofs and knocking out power, reports the AP. Rescue workers in Lone Grove, about 100 miles south of Oklahoma City, were to resume searching this... More »

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After Savaging Cuba Again, Ike Turns Toward Texas

Lone Star state preps for storm and its ever-changing path

Sep 9, 08 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - As Hurricane Ike went for round two with Cuba today, unleashing torrential rains and 80-mph winds, new models showed the Category 1 storm strengthening and bending toward the southern Texas coast later this week, CNN reports. Isolated tornadoes could also precede Ike today over the Florida Keys and southern Florida.... More »

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 Edouard Strengthens,
 Targets Gulf Coast 

Tropical storm may near hurricane strength before making landfall

Aug 4, 08 8:20 AM CDT
(AP) - Tropical Storm Edouard gained speed as it moved west today, and is expected to strengthen to near-hurricane status before making landfall somewhere in Texas or southwest Louisiana tomorrow morning, reports the AP. Emergency teams were activated as residents along the Gulf of Mexico prepared to get hit with another strong... More »

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Global Warming Didn't Cause New England Tornadoes

Scientists link extreme events to bad weather 'block'

Jul 25, 08 2:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two tornadoes have ripped through New England in the last few days, killing a New Hampshire woman and doing serious property damage. But don’t blame global warming for the uncharacteristically violent climate: local climatologists tell the Boston Herald equally extreme weather struck the region in the ‘30s and... More »

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 AP Pulls Faked Tornado Video 

Storm chaser allegedly doctored another man's old footage into his own

Jul 10, 08 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Associated Press has pulled a video described as depicting a tornado that hit Nebraska last weekend after a storm chaser claimed that it was faked. After Andy Fabel sold the clip to the AP, which passed it along to 2,000 websites, another man noticed similarities between it and... More »

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Iowa Tornado Kills 4
at Boy Scout Camp

At least 40 others are injured

Jun 11, 08 9:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four people were killed and at least 40 others were injured when a tornado struck a Boy Scout camp in western Iowa, the Des Moines Register reports. A Scout spokesman said about 100 youths ages 14 to 18 were at the camp along with adult supervisors, but it wasn't immediately... More »

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Storms, Floods in Midwest and East Coast Kill 8

Hundreds evacuated as water rises

Jun 9, 08 6:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Storms across the Midwest and East Coast this weekend forced hundreds to evacuate, destroyed homes, and killed 8 people, the AP reports. More than 10 inches of rain in much of Indiana caused flooding; more floods in Iowa were some of the worst in years. Falling trees, high winds, and... More »

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 Storms Pummel Midwest, 
 Scare Visitors 

Kansas tornadoes smash homes, spook elephants

Jun 6, 08 2:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Severe weather lashed the Great Plains yesterday after forecasters warned of a possible tornado outbreak as bad as the 1974 one that spawned 39 twisters, AP reports. At least four tornadoes touched down in Kansas, causing widespread damage and spooking a pair of runaway circus elephants. Heavy rains caused rivers... More »

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 8 Killed as Tornadoes 
 Hammer Midwest 

Storms in Iowa and Minnesota chew up towns

May 26, 08 5:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Midwestern tornadoes killed seven people in Iowa and a toddler in Minnesota yesterday as they tore paths of destruction through communities, CNN reports. The southern half of a town in Iowa was unrecognizable after a twister demolished the local high school, commercial areas  and some 200 houses. At least 50... More »

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 Tornadoes
 Leave 2 Dead
 in Midwest 

More than 20 twisters strike Kan., Okla.

May 24, 08 7:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kansas authorities uncovered two bodies from a crumpled car today after nearly 20 tornadoes whipped through the state yesterday, the AP reports. Several more twisters landed in the countryside of northwestern Oklahoma, leveling a few barns, and Colorado residents are returning to the town of Windsor today after twisters damaged... More »

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 2008 Twister Deaths
 Highest in a Decade 

22 fatalities over weekend make 98 for year

May 12, 08 7:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - With 22 tornado-related deaths in the South over the weekend, 2008 is shaping up to be the deadliest year for twisters in a decade, USA Today reports. With 98 total fatalities, “we are on a pace that continues a record number” of tornadoes since modern record-keeping began in 1950,... More »

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UPDATED

 Storms Kill 19 in Mo., Okla. 

Deadly tornadoes rip through the nation's heartland

May 10, 08 9:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tornadoes ripped through nation's heartland today, killing at least 19 people in Oklahoma and Missouri and leaving a wide swath of destruction, AP reports. Seven people were killed in the small mining town of Picher, Okla., and another 12 were killed in southwest Missouri, officials said. Oklahoma rescuers were working... More »

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 Deadly Storms Sweep Southeast 

1 killed, 2 injured in NC twister

May 9, 08 6:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - A deadly North Carolina twister was part of a powerful storm system that rocked the Southeast last night, AP reports. The Carolina tornado knocked three tractor-trailers off a highway, killing one and injuring two. Storms also hammered a shopping area in Mississippi, and homes in Tennessee and Alabama, where winds... More »

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