Normally, tornadoes die out in minutes, he said, but this one lasted for hours. He said the storm moved as fast as a car going down a large roadway.Such weather events do happen in December,but they do not happen often this time of year because the temperature on the ground is not ...
In all, the National Weather Service received reports of 37 tornadoes across these six states. Though it may take several more days before scientists can officially assign severity rankings to the tornadoes, they said debris might have been hurled as high as 30,000 feet into the air, the crui...
IntheUnitedStates,morethan90peoplediedacrosssixsouthernstateswhenstrongwindsknownastornadoesdestroyedhomes,officebuildingsandreligiouscentersonFridaynight.VictorGensini,aweatherscientistatNorthernIllinoisUniversity,calledthetornadothattraveledhundredsofmilesonFriday"Remarkable".Hesaidthetornadotraveledabout300kilometers."Norma...
She led the group for 23 years, providing help for people who suffered floods, earthquakes, fires, droughts, and tornadoes around the world. Even at age 83, she wasn’t done. Her final years were spent starting an association (协会) that promoted firstaid instruction and emergency ...
aThere are many interesting stories about the strange things that tornadoes have done in the U.S.Common wheat straw has been driven several inches into posts and trees.Buildings have been turned completely around on their foundations and have remained intact 有关于龙卷风在U.S.Common麦子秸杆做了被...
Going outside to 'see for yourself' is a big component in what Klockkow-McClain has found in her research into what she calls "the folk science" of tornado and severe weather warnings. THE 'FOLK SCIENCE' OF...
Tornadoes hit some areas, including one in Nash County, North Carolina, that critically injured four people. Atlanta received a record 11.12 inches (28.24 centimeters) of rain in 48 hours, the most the city has seen in a two-day period since record keeping began in 1878, Georgia’s Of...
Residents across a wide swath of the South and Midwest on Sunday (April 2) raced to assess the destruction wreaked by storms that dropped possibly dozens of tornadoes and killed at least 29 people in small towns and big cities, as severe weather moved into parts of the Northeast. Earlier ...
Fierce storms that started last Friday and continued through the weekend spawned deadly tornadoes in 11 states as the system plodded through Arkansas and into the South, Midwest and Northeast. Schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, canceled Wednesday classes because the storms were expected to move throug...
No two disasters are ever the same — hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes and floods hit with varying intensity, strike diverse landscapes and are amplified to different degrees by climate and countless other factors. Yet virtually all disasters have one critical commonality:They dispropo...