Severe storms brought damaging tornadoes to parts of the central US Thursday and Friday, shredding buildings into piles of debris and killing at least eight people. The severe weather threat that started Wednesday will largely wind down after Saturday. A smattering of severe storms threatens central Texas to the lower Mississippi Valley, Memphis and other portions of western Tennessee, Alabama, and parts of the Great Lakes â including Cleveland and Pittsburgh â with large hail, damaging winds and possible tornadoes Saturday. The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for areas of Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia until 8 p.m. ET. Competing air masses with record temperatures in the East and the cooler weather behind an elongated cold front are fueling the severe weather threat. Among the more than a dozen reports of tornadoes, several were confirmed in Americaâs heartland. In southwestern Michigan Friday afternoon, four people were killed and others injured as severe thunderstorm activity kicked up a destructive tornado, which was rated an EF-3 with winds up to 150 mph, according to NEXLAB, the College of DuPage Meteorology program. Three were killed and
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Read original at Ars Technica →Tornadoes, thunderstorms and blizzard conditions are forecast to pummel parts of the eastern US. More than 34 million people were under tornado watches from Florida to New Jersey. Nearly 3ft (0.9m) of snow has fallen in…
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Read original at The Guardian →Severe storms brought damaging tornadoes to parts of the central US Thursday and Friday, shredding buildings into piles of debris and killing at least eight people. The severe weather threat that started Wednesday will…
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As the daughter of an American oil field worker living in Iran in the 1970s, Blake Zummo watched as the streets around her regularly descended into violence in the years before the Iranian revolution. Now 62 and residing in Texas, she…
View source →Massive Western heat wave, potential El Niño raise concerns about unpredictable, extreme weather. Despite being declared the third-hottest year on record, 2025 was a relatively quiet year for climate disasters in the US. No major…
View source →Tornadoes, thunderstorms and blizzard conditions are forecast to pummel parts of the eastern US. More than 34 million people were under tornado watches from Florida to New Jersey. Nearly 3ft (0.9m) of snow has fallen in Minnesota,…
View source →Two people killed in Indiana as officials warn millions from Texas to Michigan remain at risk of severe weather Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A series of tornadoes hit parts of Texas,…
View source →Eighteen tornadoes between Thursday and Saturday resulted in deaths in towns from Michigan to Oklahoma Communities throughout the central United States were cleaning up and trying to recover after an onslaught deadly tornadoes struck the…
View source →Severe storms brought damaging tornadoes to parts of the central US Thursday and Friday, shredding buildings into piles of debris and killing at least eight people. The severe weather threat that started Wednesday will largely wind down…
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