Michelle Boatright inspects the damage to a pickup truck the morning after a tornado ripped through the town February 6, 2008 in Atkins, Arkansas. (Photo by Rick Gershon/Getty Images) Trending Today Weather in your inbox Your local forecast, plus daily trivia, stunning photos and our meteorolo...
Some 84 million people remained under flood watches and warnings along the East Coast on Tuesday night. More than 481,000 customers were without power in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey late Tuesday night, according to thePowerOutage.us website, along with another 151,000 customers in Vi...
FAIRHAVEN, W. Va. (KDKA) -- Several homes were damaged overnight after tornadoes moved through the Pittsburgh area, hitting western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and the West Virginia panhandle. An EF-1 tornadotouched downnear Findlay Township and an EF-1 tornado hit Lig...
A tornado isn’t likely to take you to Munchkinland, as it did in “The Wizard of Oz,” but a strong one can destroy buildings and create a damage path more than a mile wide. Its wind speeds can top 300 miles per hour. Tornadoes occur just about everywhere in the world, from India...
But it can also include the area reaching from central Texas to the Canadian prairies and from eastern Colorado to western Pennsylvania. Trivia! The term Tornado Alley was first used in 1952 by US Air Force meteorologists Major Ernest Fawbush and Captain Robert Miller as the title of a ...
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The same thing happened to the Green River in Kentucky, as well as the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers also in Kentucky and Tennessee and the lower reaches of the Wabash and White Rivers in Indiana and Illinois. The overflowing of these rivers resulted in flooding in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ...
and its forward march accelerated to 35 mph. "Potentially life-threatening urban flooding is possible in D.C., Baltimore and elsewhere along and just west of the I-95 corridor today," the National Hurricane Center warned.By 2 a.m. Wednesday, the storm had been downgraded to a post-tropica...
One person died in Pennsylvania when their vehicle was overtaken by water and swept downstream. Two others were killed by falling trees toppled by the storm in Maryland and New York City, and a sixth person died in Delaware when a tree branch fell on them, authorities said. ...