Missouri Tornado

More than a dozen tornadoes have hit the US states of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, including a rare pair of 'twin tornadoes'.

Deadly slow-moving storms generated record or near-record snowfall and low temperatures in the US Midwest and tornadoes further east on Sunday, leaving airline travelers stranded and thousands without power.

A tornado caused a "mass casualty situation" in Vilonia, Arkansas, after ripping through the town on Sunday, a spokesman for the Faulkner County Sheriff's office said.

US President Barack Obama arrived in Moore, Oklahoma, on Sunday to tour the town that was hammered last week by a powerful tornado that killed 24 people and assure its residents that the federal government would provide long-term help.

A powerful storm system churning through the US Midwest spawned tornadoes Sunday in the states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa, destroying homes and killing at least one person, US media reported.

Spring storms unleashed heavy snow, rain and high winds, including tornadoes, across parts of the central United States on Wednesday, leaving thousands of residents and businesses without power and causing scattered property damage.

Tornados spawned by a powerful storm system roared through middle America in the early morning darkness on Wednesday, flattening entire blocks of homes in small-town Illinois and Kansas and killing at least 10 people.

Injuries and significant damage were reported early Wednesday as a line of possible tornadoes moved across the Midwest.

Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $500,000 to the relief effort in the tornado-struck city of Joplin, Missouri.

The toll from the deadliest single tornado to strike the United States in more than six decades has risen to 138, officials said today.The toll rose after four critically injured victims died in hospital, the Missouri Department of Public Safety said in a statement.The mile-wide May 22 twister reduced a third of the Missouri town of Joplin to rubbl...

Face to face with the legions of homeless and the bereaved, President Barack Obama on Sunday toured the apocalyptic landscape left by Missouri's killer tornado, consoled the community and committed the government to helping rebuild shattered lives."We're not going to stop 'til Joplin's back on its feet," Obama vowed.A memorial service where Obama s...

Officials have said that 232 people were still missing four days after a tornado tore through a Missouri town, adding that some of them may be among the 125 dead found following the storm.Officials have only managed to positively identify one of the 125 bodies recovered from the rubble after the powerful twister roared across Joplin late Sunday cau...

Katy Perry has urged fans to donate for the victims of the devastating tornado in Missouri in an effort to lend a helping hand to the sufferers.

Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people when it blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital.It was the nation's deadliest single twister in nearly 60 years and the second major tornado dis...

At least 89 people have been killed by a massive tornado that blasted a four-mile path across southwestern Missouri. The tornado slammed into the city on Sunday night with cataclysmic force, ripping into a hospital, upending cars and leaving only a forest of splintered tree trunks behind where entire neighborhoods once stood.The Missouri National G...

More than a dozen tornadoes have hit the US states of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, including a rare pair of 'twin tornadoes'.

Deadly slow-moving storms generated record or near-record snowfall and low temperatures in the US Midwest and tornadoes further east on Sunday, leaving airline travelers stranded and thousands without power.

A tornado caused a "mass casualty situation" in Vilonia, Arkansas, after ripping through the town on Sunday, a spokesman for the Faulkner County Sheriff's office said.

US President Barack Obama arrived in Moore, Oklahoma, on Sunday to tour the town that was hammered last week by a powerful tornado that killed 24 people and assure its residents that the federal government would provide long-term help.

A powerful storm system churning through the US Midwest spawned tornadoes Sunday in the states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa, destroying homes and killing at least one person, US media reported.

Spring storms unleashed heavy snow, rain and high winds, including tornadoes, across parts of the central United States on Wednesday, leaving thousands of residents and businesses without power and causing scattered property damage.

Tornados spawned by a powerful storm system roared through middle America in the early morning darkness on Wednesday, flattening entire blocks of homes in small-town Illinois and Kansas and killing at least 10 people.

Injuries and significant damage were reported early Wednesday as a line of possible tornadoes moved across the Midwest.

Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $500,000 to the relief effort in the tornado-struck city of Joplin, Missouri.

The toll from the deadliest single tornado to strike the United States in more than six decades has risen to 138, officials said today.The toll rose after four critically injured victims died in hospital, the Missouri Department of Public Safety said in a statement.The mile-wide May 22 twister reduced a third of the Missouri town of Joplin to rubbl...

Face to face with the legions of homeless and the bereaved, President Barack Obama on Sunday toured the apocalyptic landscape left by Missouri's killer tornado, consoled the community and committed the government to helping rebuild shattered lives."We're not going to stop 'til Joplin's back on its feet," Obama vowed.A memorial service where Obama s...

Officials have said that 232 people were still missing four days after a tornado tore through a Missouri town, adding that some of them may be among the 125 dead found following the storm.Officials have only managed to positively identify one of the 125 bodies recovered from the rubble after the powerful twister roared across Joplin late Sunday cau...

Katy Perry has urged fans to donate for the victims of the devastating tornado in Missouri in an effort to lend a helping hand to the sufferers.

Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people when it blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital.It was the nation's deadliest single twister in nearly 60 years and the second major tornado dis...

At least 89 people have been killed by a massive tornado that blasted a four-mile path across southwestern Missouri. The tornado slammed into the city on Sunday night with cataclysmic force, ripping into a hospital, upending cars and leaving only a forest of splintered tree trunks behind where entire neighborhoods once stood.The Missouri National G...