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Tornadoes batter central US, kill unknown number

KURT VOIGT Yahoo! News 05/22/2011
116 killed by Missouri tornado, tying it for deadliest on record

The toll from the tornado that ripped through Joplin soared to 116 on Monday, a city official said, tying it for the single deadliest twister to ever hit American soil since the National Weather Service began keeping records 61 years ago.

Tornadoes batter central US, kill unknown number

A massive tornado that blasted its way across southwestern Missouri on Sunday slammed into this city with apocalyptic force, tearing into a hospital, upending dozens of cars and scrubbing entire neighborhoods to the earth, leaving only a forest of splintered tree trunks behind.

Miracle of Alabama: Parents watch as eight-year-old boy is sucked into tornado at 200mph... but LIVES to tell tale

He is the boy who got sucked up into a tornado – and lived to tell the tale. Eight-year-old Reginald Epps Jr was picked up off his feet and pulled into the swirling darkness when one of the Alabama twisters tore through his home. As his family cowered beneath him he was carried through the air some 30ft before being set down again with just cuts and bruises.

Incredible Fire Tornado Sweeps through Brazil [VIDEO]

A fire tornado sweeping through a Brazillian forest.

10 killed as tornado strikes rural Mississippi countryside

HOLBROOK MOHR and JAY REEVES Yahoo! News 04/25/2010
10 killed as tornado strikes rural Mississippi countryside

At least 10 people were killed when the tornado ripped through the rural Mississippi countryside, but the stories told by survivors on Sunday show how much higher the toll could have been.

Deadly tornado hits U.S. midwest

Oklahoma officials say at least eight people were killed in the small town of Lone Grove, 14 were injured and up to 30 people remain missing.

A tornado-ravaged town

Reuters 02/11/2009
A tornado-ravaged town

A tornado-ravaged town

Four die in Oklahoma tornadoes

A line of severe storms and tornadoes ripped through central Oklahoma Tuesday night, killing four people and injuring up to 50 others, emergency officials said.