A tornado may have struck Delaware County as major storms hit portions of eastern Oklahoma, damaging mobile homes and several buildings near West Siloam Springs, officials said Monday. No injuries were reported. The National Weather Service is sending send investigators …
More than 400 Oklahoma schools have received notices of expected insurance rate increases averaging 19.5 percent. The notice from the Oklahoma Schools Insurance Group, which provides various types of coverage to 440 of Oklahoma’s 526 school districts, comes after schools …
Two dispatchers in Dubois County have been suspended after the county’s tornado warning sirens failed to sound during a February EF-2 tornado. Dubois County Communications Director Janice Love told WEHT-TV that the sirens were never activated because the National Weather …
A powerful thunderstorm may have spawned a tornado that caused a building collapse in northeast Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the Fire Department received a report of a collapse of a large section of roof at a beer distributor …
State forestry officials say some trees damaged by recent tornadoes or flooding could still survive. Bruce Webster, urban forester with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, said trees have an amazing capacity to re-grow after damage. In a news release from …
Residents already devastated by the April 10 tornado that ripped through the area now must deal with the storm’s aftermath slowing an already fragile economy. Lincoln County had the 10th-highest unemployment rate in the state – 10.8 percent – before …
The association representing independent insurance agents in Florida has dispatched a 40-foot long catastrophe response vehicle (CRV) to Northwest Georgia to provide aid and assistance to agents affected by the tornadoes that flattened dozens of businesses and homes. “Natural disasters …
A southwest Kansas school district has a new multipurpose building designed to resist the power of tornadoes. The Fowler district said the building is a tornado-resistant monolithic dome. The steel-reinforced, concrete building will house a computer lab, band room, gym …
A tornado ripped across part of New Zealand’s largest city on Tuesday, upturning cars and sending debris slicing through the air, witnesses and news reports said. At least one person was killed and about 20 injured, a hospital official said. …
The same storm system that spawned tornadoes that killed hundreds in the South dumped more rain April 28 on parts of Indiana already bracing for floods and toppled trees onto cars along a busy highway. No injuries were reported. Troopers …