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"Forty-three people were injured in Paderborn, Germany, as a particularly dangerous tornado tore across the city's downtown area on Friday afternoon, 13 of them seriously," Mayor Michael Dreier of ...
COLUMBIA, Miss. – A late afternoon tornado struck the town of Columbia, Mississippi, on Wednesday, as residents snapped videos of the twister while it quickly moved through the southern portion ...
A winter storm that blanketed parts of the Midwest and Northeast with heavy snow and ice also unleashed severe weather, including tornadoes and damaging winds, across the South and Southeast on ...
The tornado then snapped a power pole and flipped a few center pivots into a field adjacent to Amtrak's Michigan Line. After crossing the railroad, the tornado reached its peak width and snapped hundreds of trees in the Twin Lakes area. The tornado continued to snap trees and damaged a barn before dissipating at the Cass/Van Buren County line ...
Severe weather activity became more isolated and scattered on May 27, marking the end of the outbreak sequence. In all, 248 tornadoes occurred during the outbreak sequence; 20 (+1 indirect) people were killed by tornadoes while 10 other people died due to non-tornadic events as well. Over 240 people were injured.
Yes, tornadoes can happen any time of year when conditions are favorable, especially in the South. When they happen at night, they're more often deadly, as happened 25 years ago in southern Georgia.
A few weeks after the tornado, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released details about an experimental warning system which was tested before and during the tornado. This new warning system, named Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS), was created by the Hazardous Weather Testbed housed in the National Weather Center in Norman ...
A tornado crosses a field in Katy, Texas, on Dec. 28, 2024, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video.