Category Archives: Tornadoes

Tornado strikes Louisiana as powerful storm could affect over a dozen states

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Twister destroyed buildings in Monroe, Louisiana, while local media said at least two tornadoes touched down in central Texas

A tornado strike destroyed homes and left a trail of devastation across parts of Louisiana on Sunday, as forecasters warned that a powerful Easter storm could affect more than a dozen states and millions of people before the early hours of Monday.

The storm provided a dilemma for public safety officials trying to find the balance between wanting people to stay in lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic and wanting them to leave their homes for shelter if conditions worsened.

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Nashville tornadoes: at least 25 people killed and hundreds homeless

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  • Fire crews and police comb through tornado’s wreckage
  • Torn walls and roofs, snapped power lines and downed trees

Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee as people slept early on Tuesday, shredding at least 140 buildings and killing at least 25 people. Authorities described painstaking efforts to find survivors in piles of rubble and wrecked basements as the death toll climbed.

A Tennessee emergency management agency spokeswoman raised the death toll on Tuesday morning, after police and fire crews spent hours pulling survivors and bodies from wrecked buildings.

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Footage shows aftermath of deadly overnight tornadoes in Nashville – video

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Footage recorded by a Nashville resident after two tornadoes ripped through central Tennessee shows shredded buildings, damaged power lines and debris across roads. At least 22 people have been killed and hundreds are homeless

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Mystery sounds from storms could help predict tornadoes

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Scientists narrow down causes of low-frequency rumbles emitted before twisters form

Mysterious rumbles that herald tornadoes could one day be used to predict when and where they will strike, according to researchers.

Storms emit sounds before tornadoes form, but the signals at less than 20Hz are below the limit for human hearing. What causes these rumbles has also been a conundrum.

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Aerial footage shows scale of destruction after tornado in Dayton, Ohio – video

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A line of tornadoes tore across Indiana and Ohio overnight, killing one person and injuring dozens in a wave so close together that one tornado crossed the path carved by another. In and around Dayton, Ohio, more than 40 people were taken to hospital for storm-related injuries

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Memorial Day: sweltering heat and storms follow tornadoes and flooding

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Sweltering heat, storms and possible twisters were expected to hit the southern plains and south-eastern states on Memorial Day, on the heels of deadly tornadoes and flooding.

Related: Are hurricanes getting stronger – and is the climate crisis to blame?

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Alabama tornadoes kill at least 23 and cause ‘catastrophic’ damage

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Sheriff says more people are missing as weather system sparks flurry of tornadoes across south-eastern US on Sunday

At least 23 people, including children as young as six, have been killed and more are missing after at least two tornadoes struck in Alabama on Sunday, causing “catastrophic” damage, a county sheriff has said.

Crews searched a trail of destruction several miles long before pausing efforts overnight as conditions became too dangerous, Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said. “The challenge is the sheer volume of the debris where all the homes were located,” Jones told CNN. “It’s the most I’ve seen that I can recall.”

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