Sunday night, around 10 P.M., a tornado struck the Grafton Hill and Vernon Hill neighborhoods of Worcester, Massachusetts. It reached winds of 85 miles per hour, which made it an EF0, the weakest of tornadoes. According to NBC 10 News,…
Bret Michaels Headlines Benefit Concert For Tornado Victims In Pilger, Nebraska
Many believe that music has healing powers, and this is what rockstar Bret Michaels wanted to prove. On Sunday he headlined a benefit concert for those affected by the twin tornadoes that hit the town of Pilger in Nebraska in…
Bret Michaels Helps Out in Tornado-Ravaged Town
Bret Michaels and his band pitched in to help clean up efforts in a tornado-ravaged town in Nebraska. It was just over a week ago that Pilger, Nebraska sustained considerable damage and destruction following an EF4 tornado that touched down…
Denver Tornadoes Cause Hail Storm And Disrupts Airport
On Wednesday, a total of eight tornadoes touched down in the Denver metro area. In addition, Colorado was also facing a fierce thunderstorm that produced piles of hail, which caused residents to take shelter. Three tornadoes touched down in Araphoe…
Mississippi Tornado Weather Possible Early Next Week
This year’s long, long winter is finally over and warmer weather is bringing people out of their houses in the Midwest and Eastern U.S. The coming of spring, however, doesn’t mean the nation’s weather troubles are quite over yet. After…
Moore, Oklahoma Passes New Tornado-Resistant Building Codes
Some residents of Moore, Oklahoma are still in the process of rebuilding their homes from damages that were left by last year’s tornado. Buildings were reduced to rubble, cars were left crushed, and walls were what remained of the structures.…
Moore, Oklahoma Toughens Building Codes for Future Tornado Incursions
New residential building codes went into effect Thursday for one tornado-prone town. The city of Moore, Oklahoma is taking preventive measures to protect the area from any further destructive damages incurred from tornadoes. The city recently set in stone tough…
Westboro Baptist Church Protesters Run Out of Town
Less than three weeks after Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps died, his former congregation is at it again. This time, the Westboro Baptist Church members decided to picket a school in Moore, Oklahoma, a town that was devastated by…
Several Tornadoes Hit Northern California [Video]
The National Weather Service announced the touchdown of several tornadoes in California on Wednesday. Jeff Ranieri, chief meteorologist of the NBC Bay Area, said that there were reports of six funnel clouds and four tornadoes in the region. The National…
Tornadoes in California Cause Limited Damage
Since last summer, San Francisco, California has received less than half the average amount of rainfall it usually sees over the course of one year. A supercell, which hit the mainland from the Pacific on Wednesday, however, has brought much…
Indiana Recovering from Tornado Damage
Indiana was one of several midwestern states hit by tornadoes Sunday, and Governor Mike Pence has taken a helicopter tour of Hoosier communities that were hardest hit by the severe weather. Wide swaths of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri,…
Soldier Field Evacuated: Bears And Ravens Game Gets Delayed Due To Weather
In an act of nature, another professional football game has been delayed due to the severe weather conditions, with Solider Field being evacuated during the game that was played on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. in Chicago. The weather has…
Rare Tornado Strikes Hard in Western Washington
After extensive review, the National Weather Service has confirmed that the wind damage imposed on Western Washington was the work of a vicious, rare tornado. Several industrial buildings and commercial structures south of Seattle were damaged. The ‘early winter storm’…
Tornado Hits Ursuline College Early Saturday Morning
Early Saturday morning, a tornado touched down in northeast Ohio hitting Ursuline College. The tornado, which has been classified as an EF1, hit just northwest of the college at around 3:35 a.m. Saturday morning. It made it’s way across the…
McMinnville Tornado Confirmed As Residents Assess Damage
A small tornado swept through McMinnville, Oregon on Thursday, doing considerable damage to property and businesses. While tornadoes occur mostly in the midwest and southern states, occasionally one will pop up on the West Coast. Strong storms have been moving…
Tornado Survivor Killed: 5-Year Old Boy Mauled By Dog
A 5-year old boy was killed on Sunday when the pet of a family friend attacked him, severely wounding his head and neck. The boy–whose name hasn’t been released yet–was staying with friends of his parents in Jessieville, Arkansas, while…
Oklahoma Tornado Officially the Widest Ever Recorded in the U.S.
The tornado that hit just outside of El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31 is officially the widest tornado ever recorded in U.S. history. The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) today declared that the tornado was 2.6 miles wide at its…
Google Maps Shows Before/After Moore, Oklahoma Tornado Imagery
Google has a crisis response map for those affected by the giant tornado that ripped through Moore, Oklahoma. Included in that is imagery of the area from Google Maps. Google posted a before/after look at the area to its Google…
Dog Guards Owner’s Body After Tornado
In a heart-wrenching story out of Oklahoma, a tiny black dog which was discovered alive among the wreckage was actually guarding the body of its owner, who had died in the F-5 stage tornado that leveled a good part of…