A tornado touched down late Friday afternoon in Norman, Oklahoma, bringing scattered structural damage and a taste of more severe weather -- including a tornado outbreak -- expected Saturday in the Plains.
Truck trailers are thrown around violently as a tornado rips through North Texas.
Nearly 1,100 homes were hit by the tornadoes that struck the Dallas-Fort Worth area Tuesday, including 349 homes that were destroyed, a Red Cross spokeswoman said Thursday.
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A tornado sweeps through a tractor-trailer complex in Texas leaving a pile of debris.
CNN's Rob Marciano reports from West Liberty, Kentucky, where tornado rubble is now covered with snow.
One tornado stayed on the ground for 95 miles as it tore through towns in Kentucky and West Virginia. Two other twisters left behind 49-mile paths of destruction.
Cleanup workers make plodding progress Monday in parts of Kentucky and Indiana where fresh snow complicated efforts to dig out of the destruction wrought by last week's deadly tornadoes.
Kevin Welz from Henryville, Indiana, talks to Don Lemon about what it's like to see a tornado up close.
With dozens dead and scores of buildings reduced to rubble, residents of the Midwest and South on Sunday were assessing the damage that a series of vicious twisters left behind last week.
When a powerful jet stream bringing in cold northern air collided with a large mass of warm, moist air from the south, the conditions were right for the tornadoes that have left at least 45 dead this week.
Survivors of a storm that killed 13 across the Mdwest recount their horror stories and the fear they felt.
The death toll from an enormous storm system that plowed through the Midwest and spawned more tornadoes as it moved east climbed late Wednesday to 12, authorities said.
KFVS brings us the first pictures of damage left behind by a tornado that ripped through Harrisburg, Illinois.
A storm system that produced a number of tornadoes in the Midwest was blamed for at least seven deaths in two states, officials said Wednesday.
Ranee Roberts feels lucky to have survived the impact of a tornado that hit her Alabama convenience store in April.
A possible tornado caused widespread damage across several North Carolina counties Wednesday. WSOC reports.
Authorities assessed the damage in North Carolina on Thursday after severe weather raked the area, injuring a number of people.
Severe weather -- including suspected tornadoes -- swept through the South on Wednesday, killing at least four people and injuring others, officials said.
With at least 1,488 tornadoes and 547 deaths, 2011 has been one for the record books. Although the tools forecasters use are getting better, concerns remain about whether residents have enough accurate information or are heeding warnings.
The tornado season of 2011 will go down as one of the most destructive and dangerous in U.S. history.
CNN's John King talks to Joplin High School principal Kerry Sachetta about the town's road to recovery.
Wednesday is the start of the school year for students in Joplin, Missouri, a bittersweet time for a town still rebuilding from a tornado in May that killed more than 130 people.
The death of a woman injured in the May tornado in Joplin, Missouri, brings the toll from the deadly twister to 156.
The death toll from the devastating tornado that ripped through Joplin, Missouri, last month has risen to 155, a city spokeswoman said Monday.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano toured Joplin, Missouri, Thursday and pledged to help residents rebuild the tornado-ravaged city.
Chris Carriger, a Joplin, Missouri, police officer, describes how he managed to survive Sunday's tornado.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick confirms that at least 19 communities in his state have been impacted by tornadoes.
Residents of tornado-ravaged Joplin, Missouri, continued picking up the pieces, totaling the damages and counting their blessings Wednesday.
The tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, Sunday killed 124 people, authorities said Tuesday, in what was the deadliest single U.S. tornado since modern record-keeping began 61 years ago.
Severe weather's assault on middle America continued Tuesday, as tornadoes and thunderstorms pulverized communities and claimed at least six lives in Oklahoma and Kansas.
The warnings seem almost ubiquitous today in this world of Doppler Radar and instant communication, but the word "tornado" actually used to be banned in weather forecasts.
Strangers huddle in a convenience store in Joplin, Missouri, just before a tornado hits.
Tornadoes are nothing new in places like Joplin, Missouri, nor are efforts to alert people to save their lives before swirling 200 mph winds pop up from seemingly nowhere.
A deaf couple describe how they survived a tornado that demolished their home. WAFF reports.
With the official state death toll now at 337, the Wednesday through Thursday tornado outbreak is the second-deadliest single day for tornadoes since recordkeeping began, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
The tornado outbreak that ravaged the southern U.S. this week, exacting a particularly harsh toll in Alabama, can seem like a freakish demonstration of nature's power. What might be more extraordinary, though, is our capacity to pretend that disaster -- and the sudden upending of ordinary life that it brings forth -- is not part of our very fabric, what poet John Keats might have called "A partner in your sorrow's mysteries."
President Obama makes a statement after touring tornado-ravaged Alabama.
A widespread outbreak of severe weather across the Deep South may be one for the record books, as the National Weather Service received reports of more than 150 tornadoes.
The National Weather Service had already received more than 100 reports of tornadoes by Wednesday night.
A rare mix of factors combined to cause widespread severe weather and dozens of reported tornadoes across the southern United States Wednesday, experts said.
Violent storms kill seven people and knock out power to more than 70,000 homes in Arkansas.
Storms in the lower Mississippi valley Tuesday night unleashed baseball-sized hail, high winds and twisters, including one that lifted a tractor-trailer, the National Weather Service said.
Home video shows a tornado that swirled through northeast Missouri. WGEM has more.
Portions of the Midwest and South were experiencing another round of severe weather on Tuesday, as a line of violent storms threatened some of the same states battered by a wave of violent weather last week, forecasters say.
A violent rash of fast-moving storms churned north Saturday, ripping off roofs, toppling trees and pushing the three-day death toll to 26 as possible tornadoes moved into the mid-Atlantic states.
HLN Meteorologist Bob Van Dillen forecasts a powerful storm could spawn tornadoes and baseball-sized hail in the Plains.
An Iowa community was shut down much of Sunday afternoon while emergency crews remained hard at work, sifting through wreckage caused by a wave of powerful tornadoes that swept across the state overnight.
Amateur video shows a large funnel cloud spinning across Mableton, Iowa.
Six o'clock on a Sunday morning and I'm dragging myself out of bed to drive to Norman, Oklahoma, of all places.
CNN producer Aaron Brodie shot video across the street from a tornado spiraling near Perry, Kansas.
A fast-moving band of intense storms sweeps through the South causing tornadoes, wind and rain.
Parts of Alabama and much of Mississippi were under flood warnings Wednesday night, as rivers throughout the region rose after a day of storms and torrential rain.
A powerful storm sweeps across Louisiana, bringing at least one tornado and wreaking havoc on Mardi Gras festivities.
Utility companies will return Sunday to restore power in parts of Rayne, Louisiana, after a tornado pummelled the region, killing at least one person.
A mother died trying to protect her daughter when a tornado hit her home, a Louisiana mayor said, one of at least two twisters tied to a weather system that's caused major damage in the state and wreaked havoc on Mardi Gras festivities.
A severe storm system had the Carolinas and Virginia in its sights late Tuesday after it slammed into metropolitan Atlanta, damaging dozens of homes and snarling the afternoon commute.
A system that was pushing ferocious storm cells in a track from Mississippi to the mid-Atlantic states brought reports of tornado sightings and delays at several large airports on Wednesday.
A series of powerful storms and tornadoes tears roofs and siding from houses, littering neighborhoods with debris.
At least four tornadoes struck Arizona Wednesday, injuring seven people, derailing a train and damaging more than 100 homes, the National Weather Service said.
A tornado rips through an RV trailer area near Interstate 40 in Bellemont.
Officials say a tornado touched down in Eagle, Wisconsin leveling several homes and leaving thousands without power.
The National Weather Service has confirmed that three tornadoes touched down in Wisconsin Monday, including a half-mile-wide, EF2-strength tornado with winds up to 130 mph that cut a five-mile-long path through the southeastern part of the state.
A fast-developing storm spawned at least one tornado Sunday in Billings, Montana, ripping the roof off a massive entertainment complex and causing extensive damage in the region.
A tornado rips through Billings, Montana, ripping the roof off a massive entertainment complex.
Storm chasers capture dramatic video of tornadoes touching down in parts of Minnesota.
At least five people were killed in Oklahoma on Monday after a severe storm system spawned multiple tornadoes across the state, the state emergency management department said.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour talks with CNN's Don Lemon about the damage and fatalities from Saturday's tornado.
Rescue crews in Mississippi continued to search for survivors Sunday from a powerful tornado that ripped through the state a day earlier, killing 10 people, injuring dozens of others and leveling scores of homes.
Severe weather was predicted to hit the southern plains Friday, a day after at least three tornadoes ripped through the area.
Two storm chasers were able to get images of one of the tornadoes that hit Arkansas.
One person was killed and three others were injured after a series of powerful tornadoes ripped through dozens of homes in central Arkansas on Wednesday night, officials said Thursday.
WKRN's Todd Dunn describes the scene in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, after severe weather causes major damage.
A mother and her infant were killed by a tornado that hit Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on Friday, a family member told CNN.
Parkersburg, Iowa, is mourning its dead and cleaning up the colossal mess left by a powerful tornado that tore through the town on Sunday night.
A powerful tornado devastated Parkersburg, Iowa for miles.
With the year not even half done, 2008 is already the deadliest tornado year in the United States since 1998 and seems on track to break the U.S. record for the number of twisters in a year
Tornadoes swept through the Midwest on Sunday, killing seven people in Iowa and a toddler in Minnesota.
Amazing video from Hennessey, Oklahoma, of a tornado hitting a farm building
Affiliate KUSA shot video of a giant tornado and hail in Weld County, Colorado.
A massive tornado tore into the northern Colorado town of Windsor and nearby towns Thursday, killing one person and damaging many homes and businesses, the town's mayor said.
Another round of storms headed toward tornado-ravaged areas of Missouri, Arkansas and several other states early Tuesday
Severe weather struck parts of the Midwest on Saturday, and a tornado was spotted in Oklahoma.
At least three tornadoes caused massive damage in Virginia and injured more than 200 people on Monday, officials said.
A tornado rips through fields in Dawson County, Texas.
Since the 19th century, damage surveys have included reports of tornadoes moving entire houses while keeping them intact, driving pieces of straw into tree trunks in high-speed winds, and tearing asphalt pavement away from the road like an orange peel. The following facts can help distinguish between myth and reality concerning tornadoes.
Downed trees and power lines, home destroyed; that's whats left after a tornado ripped through Polk County, Georgia.
A tornado caused havoc in Kenosha County, Wisconsin. CNN's Chad Myers reports.
Tornadoes tore across the nation's midsection for a second night Saturday, 24 hours after a storm leveled Greensburg, Kansas.
(CNN) -- On Thursday a tornado hit North London, damaging 150 homes and injuring six people, one seriously. In a world where extreme weather events seem to be happening with increasing frequency, we offer some tips on what to do if a tornado comes knocking at your front door (before ripping it off its hinges and whirling it hundreds of feet into the air, along with your roof, windows, car and pet dog).
Since the 19th century, damage surveys have included reports of tornadoes moving entire houses while keeping them intact, driving pieces of straw into tree trunks in high-speed winds, and tearing asphalt pavement away from the road like an orange peel. The following facts can help distinguish between myth and reality concerning tornadoes.
Storms drenched parts of the nation's mid-section Saturday, and at least 30 twisters were reported in several states in the first major outbreak of tornadoes this year.
In a blizzard, two feet of snow won't fall at your house while your neighbor gets a dusting. Hurricanes rarely pummel one part of town and totally skirt another, nor does an earthquake rattle one building and leave one next-door unshaken.
including a police officer and Channel 4 reporter Victoria Warren -- reported seeing funnel clouds in northwest Jacksonville Thursday afternoon, and the National Weather Service immediately issued a tornado warning.
The severe weather that brought 84 tornado sightings across eight states Sunday was responsible for three deaths, taking the death toll from the weekend storms to eight, officials said Monday.
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