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Tropical depression heads toward southern Mexico
Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall in that ...
Radar shows tornado touched down at Denver airport
Radar indicated a tornado briefly touched down Tuesday over the east runways of Denver International Airport, where thousands of people took shelter ...
New NYC evacuation zones include almost 3M people
Nearly 3 million New Yorkers' homes are now in evacuation zones that cover more than a third of the city's population, under new maps released Tuesday
Massive storm system hitting Mid-Atlantic
A massive storm system that started in the Upper Midwest brought soaking rains and heavy winds to the Mid-Atlantic Thursday, causing widespread power ...
NY librarian back on job after storm-forced firing
A librarian in a small upstate New York village is back on the job two weeks after she was fired for closing the library 40 minutes early amid a ...
State-by-state look at Iowa to Mid-Atlantic storm
Massive thunderstorms that swept through the Midwest are pushing toward the Mid-Atlantic states. Meteorologists warn that the line of storms could ...
Midwest pelted with rain, wind, hail, tornadoes
A massive line of storms packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds rolled through the Midwest Wednesday evening driving people into basements ...
Midwest could see strong windstorms from derecho
The National Weather Service was tracking a so-called derecho weather pattern in the Midwest on Tuesday that could spawn severe windstorms in major ...
27-car Nev. sandstorm pileup kills 1, hurts others
Twenty-seven vehicles slammed into each other during a sandstorm that blinded drivers on Interstate 80 in rural northern Nevada, killing a truck ...
2 out of 3 people face hunger as Haiti woes mount
The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast. The hair on broomstick-thin ...
After storm deaths, search on for perfect warning
The average tornado warning in the 1980s went out only after a twister was on the ground. Continuing advances in storm prediction have since enabled ...
Andrea washes away sporting events on East Coast
The remnants of Tropical Storm Andrea washed away sporting events from the Southeast to New England. Major League games in Washington, Boston and New ...
Andrea bringing rains, flood watches to East Coast
The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season drenched the Southeastern U.S. but caused no major damage on Friday, marching up the East Coast ...
Tropical Storm Andrea pounds parts of Florida
The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday as it moved toward the coast of Georgia ...
Tropical Storm Andrea bearing down on Fla. coast
The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday as it moved over land toward the coast ...
Tropical Storm Andrea nears Fla.'s west coast
The first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Andrea, formed Wednesday over the Gulf of Mexico and was expected to bring wet weather to ...
Deadly Okla. tornado widest on record, rare EF5
The deadly tornado that plowed through an area near Oklahoma City last week was even larger and more powerful than previously estimated — a record 2.
Storm chasing critical, profitable and dangerous
While most people take shelter when a tornado approaches, a growing throng heads for the prairies, be they scientists hoping to protect the public ...
Discovery to air special honoring 3 storm chasers
Discovery Channel says it will honor three veteran storm chasers who died in Oklahoma with a special airing this week. The program, "Mile Wide ...
Out with a whimper: Storms over in East, South
The remnants of violent storms that killed more than a dozen people in Oklahoma moved out to sea with a whimper Monday, but not before sending ...
Damaging storms moving through east, south
Damaging winds flattened trees and utility poles and knocked out power in parts of northern New England on Sunday, flights were delayed in New York ...
Frightened Okla. residents opt to flee tornadoes
It's a warning as familiar as a daily prayer for Tornado Alley residents: When a twister approaches, take shelter in a basement or low-level interior ...
Reality catches up with sci-fi in storm drones
At the time it premiered, "Twister" put forth a fantastical science fiction idea: Release probes into a storm in order to figure out which tornadoes ...
5 dead in tornado in Oklahoma City area, 50 hurt
Tornadoes rolled in from the prairie and slammed Oklahoma City and its suburbs, trapping people in their vehicles as a storm swept down an interstate ...