Tokyo: A tornado tore through a city northeast of Japan's capital on Sunday, killing one person, injuring dozens of others and destroying scores of houses. Firefighters and medical teams rushed to the area after the tornado struck Tsukuba city, 60 kilometers (40 miles) from Tokyo. The city is a science centre, with dozens of research and academic institutes, but the tornado appeared to mostly hit residential areas. A 14-year-old boy...
10:26 AM, May 07, 2012
Agartala: A farmer was killed and 175 injured in Tripura when a tornado, accompanied by rain and hailstorm, hit the state, destroying more than 1,000 houses, uprooting trees and disrupting communication, officials said on Tuesday. Authorities have stepped up efforts to provide relief to those affected by the tornado that struck late on Monday. The injured comprise children, women and elderly people. "Of the 175 injured, the condition of 60...
10:45 AM, May 01, 2012
Oklahoma City: Dozens of tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa overnight and one twister killed at least five people early on Sunday as storm sirens failed to sound in an Oklahoma town and caught people unaware. Storms skipped across what is often called "Tornado Alley" in the US Central and Southern Plains and more were forecast. But casualties appeared limited because many of the twisters hit...
02:43 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Dallas: At least two tornadoes tore through the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area in Texas on Tuesday, ripping apart buildings, tossing tractor trailer trucks into the air and grounding planes in the region. There were no reports of deaths or serious injuries, according to police, although the storm was still active. One tornado tossed around trucks like toys in the Flying J Truck Plaza in Dallas, said truck driver Michael Glennon,...
07:39 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Kentucky: Rescue teams and residents combed through storm-wracked towns to assess damage on Saturday from a chain of tornadoes that cut a 1,000-mile swath of destruction from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, as the death toll crept up to at least 39 people. The fast-moving twisters spawned by massive thunderstorms splintered blocks of homes, damaged schools and a prison, and tossed around vehicles like toys, killing 20 people...
08:39 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Indianapolis: Powerful tornadoes ripped through the US midsection on Friday, killing at least 27 people in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio as they splintered homes, damaged a prison and tossed around vehicles across the region. At least 13 people were killed in southern Indiana, another 12 in neighbouring Kentucky and two more in Ohio from storms that battered a band of states from Ohio to Alabama, officials said. "We are no...
11:51 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Joplin: 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 spoke punctuated a day of remembrance one week after the disaster, as authorities pressed...
08:53 AM, May 30, 2011
Joplin: The death toll from the powerful tornado that tore through the Missouri city of Joplin rose to 139 on Saturday after seven more victims were identified, the city said. Sunday's tornado was rated an EF-5, or the strongest possible, and is already the deadliest single twister in the United States since 1947, The tornado injured more than 900 people, and officials said that number could be higher because some...
07:55 AM, May 29, 2011
Joplin: The death toll from the powerful tornado that tore through the Missouri city of Joplin rose to 139 on Saturday after seven more victims were identified, the city said. Sunday's tornado was rated an EF-5, or the strongest possible, and is already the deadliest single twister in the United States since 1947. The tornado injured more than 900 people, and officials said that number could be higher because some...
10:17 PM, May 28, 2011
Joplin: Friends and family paid tribute to victims of the Joplin tornado on Friday, beginning the grim task of burying the dead as officials said the savage storm's death toll had risen to 132 people. As the first funeral began just over the Kansas border, city officials said the body count had gone up by six from the previous day. The state meanwhile worked to pare down the list of...
12:26 PM, May 28, 2011
Joplin: Rescue crews refused to be deterred on Wednesday even as Joplin officials said no new survivors were pulled from the rubble left by behind the single deadliest tornado in decades and the death toll rose to at least 125. More than 900 people also were injured by a mighty twister the National Weather Service said was an EF5, the strongest rating assigned to tornadoes, with winds of more than...
08:42 AM, May 26, 2011
Oklahoma City: Tornadoes have left four people dead in Oklahoma and two in Kansas, officials said on Tuesday. The four confirmed deaths in Oklahoma were in Canadian County, west of Oklahoma City, said Michaelann Ooten, deputy director of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management. Statewide, there were 60 injuries and 58,000 were without power, Ooten said. In Kansas, two people died near the town of St John, state emergency management...
08:40 AM, May 25, 2011
A monster tornado tore through the US state of Joplin, leaving 116 people dead, Anderson Cooper brings you scenes from the disaster struck area. ...
10:42 AM, May 24, 2011
Joplin: A monster tornado killed at least 116 people in Joplin, Missouri when it tore through the heart of the small city, ripping the roof off a hospital and destroying thousands of homes and businesses. Weather officials said the tornado that hit the city of 50,000 at dinner time on Sunday was the deadliest single tornado in the country since 1947 and the ninth-deadliest tornado of all time, they said....
07:09 AM, May 24, 2011
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