Natural Disasters

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 15 mins ago - 4 reports

President calls for flood prevention measures

Taipei, May 20 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou called Monday for local governments to take flood prevention measures as the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) forecast heavy to torrential rain for the country.The president issued the call after he visited the ... [Published Focus Taiwan - 15 mins ago]

Entities: Taiwan, Chiayi (Taiwan), Nantou (Taiwan)

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 15 mins ago - 14 reports

Deadly Tornado Slam Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri

.Saved under Climate Change, Environment, Headlines, Janet Grace Ortigas, U.S.Tags: topA 79 year old man was killed, and 21 were injured Sunday when tornadoes violently torn Oklahoma, Kansas, and Iowa ripping roofs off homes, tossing trees, and downing ... [Published The Guardian Express - 15 mins ago]

Entities: Oklahoma (United States), Tornado, Iowa (United States), Flooding, Earlham (United States)

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 21 mins ago - 8 reports

Tornadoes Level Homes in Oklahoma, One Dead

Authorities say a tornado that severely damaged a mobile home park southeast of Oklahoma City killed a 79-year-old man whose body was found in an open area of the neighborhood.Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth also said that six people who lived ... [Published KOLN/KGIN - 21 mins ago]

Entities: Tornado, Mike Booth, Oklahoma City

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 23 mins ago - 3 reports

Farmers want water 'banked' for future droughts

A survey of farmers in the Namoi catchment area in the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) shows they are generally supportive of ‘banking’ water from floods by storing the surplus water underground.The Namoi River is regularly subject to large floods.Credit: ... [Published ECOS Magazine - 23 mins ago]

Entities: Aquifer, Drought, Australia

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 26 mins ago - 5 reports

Governor Fallin Declares State of Emergency Due to Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, Flooding

OKLAHOMA CITY – Governor Mary Fallin today declared a State of Emergency for 16 Oklahoma counties due to tornadoes, severe storms, straight-line winds and flooding that began Saturday.The counties included in the declaration are: Caddo, Cleveland, Comanche, ... [Published State of Oklahoma - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Mary Fallin, State of Emergency, Flooding

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 57 mins ago - 3 reports

4.8 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Antigua

Antigua St. John's - An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 was felt in Antigua and Barbuda and the French island of Martinique Saturday night, but there were no immediate reports of injury of destruction.The US-based National Earthquake Information Centre ... [Published Caribarena Antigua - 57 mins ago]

Entities: Earthquake, Antigua and Barbuda, Martinique, Trinidad and Tobago, Flammable

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 58 mins ago - 21 reports

National Weather Service

Powerful tornadoes lash US states

Tornadoes have lashed the US states of Oklahoma and Kansas, leaving one person dead, in what experts say is a weather system moving through the central region, stretching from north Texas to Minnesota.Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska are all in ... [Published Al Jazeera - 58 mins ago]

Entities: Tornado, Powerful, NBC News Channel, National Weather Service, Oklahoma City

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 8 reports

Tornadoes pummel several states and kill 1

A rash of tornadoes wreaked havoc in Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and Monday, destroying homes and tossing trees around like toothpicks.But the destructive weather isn't over. Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the ... [Published WDSU New Orleans - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Tornado, National Weather Service, Mike Booth, Tom Ryan, Extent of Damage

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 5 hours ago - 43 reports

Tornadoes damage homes in Kansas, Oklahoma

Windsor Genova – Fourth Estate Cooperative ContributorOklahoma, OK, United States (4E) – Tornadoes touched down in Kansas and Oklahoma on Sunday damaging homes and downing power lines, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. There was no immediate reports ... [Published GantDaily.com - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, Oklahoma (United States), Westar Energy Inc, Fourth Estate

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 6 reports

Tornado levels homes in Oklahoma City trailer park

A tornado touches down southwest of Wichita, Kan. near the town of Viola on Sunday, May 19, 2013. The tornado was part of a line of storms that past through the central plains on Sunday. Photo: The Wichita Eagle, Travis HeyingA tornado touches down southwest ... [Published Stamford Advocate - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, Wichita, Oklahoma City

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 5 reports

Flood Warning Issued For Cumming

The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for Cumming.Big Creek near Cumming was reportedly at 8.1 feet just before 5 p.m. and falling slowly. The creek's waters are expected to continue falling throughout the night.Flood stage for Big ... [Published Cumming Patch - 7 hours ago]

Entities: National Weather Service, Flooding

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 7 hours ago - 8 reports

ubalert: 5.1 - off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia- http://t.co/F6VxgwAWGl #earthquake #fb

ubalert: 5.1 - off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia- http://t.co/F6VxgwAWGl #earthquake #fb ... [Published Twitter - ubalert - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Earthquake, Russia

Quotes

"20 mm or more of rain could fall in a short space of time, with the possibility that a few spots could receive more than double this amount in a couple of hours, leading to possible problems with run-off and surface flooding."

Weather warnings issued across Scotland as heavy showers forecast [Published Stv.tv - 32 mins ago]

...see where there's absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of each other, debris piled up," Booth said. "It looks like there's been heavy equipment in there on a demolition tour."

Tornadoes slam Plains, Midwest; 1 dead in Okla. [Published Miami Herald - 44 mins ago]

...their fellow citizens," he urged and directed that water should be made available as a matter of urgency in areas where grazing is still available. "Consideration should also be given for the culling of game by the Ministry of Environment and Tourism before animals are lost due to drought" Pohamba advised

President declares drought emergency [Published New Era - 48 mins ago]

Forecasters warn the downpours could be "sufficiently intense and slow-moving to generate some disruption due to localised flooding." The yellow warning comes as parts of the county attempt to get back on their feet following floods on Saturday

New weather warning for Cumbria [Published News and Star - 51 mins ago]

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Heavy rain and hail forecast for today [Published Aysor.am - 13 mins ago]
President calls for flood prevention measures [Published Focus Taiwan - 15 mins ago]
Deadly Tornado Slam Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri [Published The Guardian Express - 15 mins ago]
Tornadoes Level Homes in Oklahoma, One Dead [Published KOLN/KGIN - 21 mins ago]
Farmers want water 'banked' for future droughts [Published ECOS Magazine - 23 mins ago]
Deadly tornadoes rip through Oklahoma [Published China.org.cn - 27 mins ago]
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Tornadoes level homes in Oklahoma, hit elsewhere [Published Indian Express - 35 mins ago]
Government agencies on alert for heavy downpour [Published Noodls - 40 mins ago]
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President declares drought emergency [Published New Era - 48 mins ago]
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New weather warning for Cumbria [Published News and Star - 51 mins ago]
Tornadoes slam Plains, Midwest; 1 dead in Okla. [Published KXNet.com - 53 mins ago]
Major Flooding Forecasted [Published KIMT.COM - 54 mins ago]
Tornadoes tear through American Midwest and Okl... [Published Telegraph - 55 mins ago]
Meteorologists predict busy hurricane season [Published Foster's Daily Democrat - 57 mins ago]
4.8 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Antigua [Published Caribarena Antigua - 57 mins ago]
Tornadoes slam Plains, Midwest; 1 dead in Okla. [Published EveningSun.com - 58 mins ago]
Wildfire Awareness Week event includes Smokey h... [Published Mountain Democrat - 58 mins ago]
Powerful tornadoes lash US states [Published Al Jazeera - 58 mins ago]
Tornadoes rip through central US [Published EuroNews - 1 hour ago]
National Weather Service Declares Flood Watch f... [Published Burnsville MN Patch - 1 hour ago]

Blogs

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Insane Video From Inside A Tornado [Published BuzzFeed - Latest - 3 hours ago] Storm chaser and meteorologist Reed Timmer intercepted a tornado Sunday northeast of Edmond, Oklahoma. Don’t try this at home kids. Source: @reedtimmerTVN / via: @reedtimmerTVN ...
ubalert: 5.1 - off the east coast of the Kamcha... [Published Twitter - ubalert - 7 hours ago] ubalert: 5.1 - off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia- http://t.co/F6VxgwAWGl #earthquake #fb ...
On higher ed: "An Avalanche Is Comng" [Published Global Strategies - 8 hours ago] The New Yorker has one of its long essays about onlinehigher education. It is by Nathan Heller and is titled “Laptop U.”It covers many of the latests, interesting developments in online education andat one point (here, page 6) mentions the paper “An Avalanche ...

Audio/Video

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Tornado travels across field in Oklahoma [Published CNN.com - Video - 1 hour ago]
Tornado damages homes in Oklahoma [Published CNN.com - Video - 2 hours ago]
Tornado rips through OK [Published Reuters Video: Top News - 3 hours ago]
Tornadoes leave path of destruction [Published CNN.com - Video - 7 hours ago]
Tornadoes rip through Oklahoma [Published CNN.com - Video - 9 hours ago]

Press Releases

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Unusually Dangerous Wildfire Season Requires Ex... [Published PR Newswire: Consumer Products & Retail - May 17 2013]
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Tree Donations Reforest Devastated Areas from H... [Published EON Environment - May 14 2013]
Tree Donations Reforest Devastated Areas from H... [Published Business Wire Environment News - May 14 2013]
Tree Donations Reforest Devastated Areas from H... [Published Business Wire Photo/Multimedia News - May 14 2013]