Tornado

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Name: Tornado

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 18 mins ago - 24 reports

Damage from Oklahoma twister could exceed $2 billion

MOORE, OKLAHOMA – The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday.State authorities, meanwhile, said two infants were among the ... [Published Japan Times - 18 mins ago]

Entities: Tornado, Oklahoma City, Albert Ashwood, Mick Cornett

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 30 mins ago - 7 reports

Mourners remember girl, 9, killed in Okla. tornado

This undated handout photo provided by Brandie Candelaria shows Antonia Candelaria. Candelaria was killed when a tornado struck Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., on Monday, May 20, 2013. Photo: Courtesy Of Brandie Candelaria ... [Published seattlepi.com - 30 mins ago]

Entities: Tornado

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 43 mins ago - 57 reports

Clorox Company

Pelham donation drive sending help to Oklahoma tornado victims

PELHAM, Alabama -- When Realty South agent Lil Draper in Pelham suggested a donation drive for the victims of the Oklahoma tornado, others in the office jumped on it.Realty South broker Kent Brenner had been through Hurricane Andrew in south Florida, ... [Published al.com - 43 mins ago]

Entities: Donations, Tornado, Clorox Company, Real Estate, Hurricane Andrew

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 6 reports

Tornado recovery: What Moore can learn from Joplin

Monday's monster tornado in Moore , Okla., was a terrible reminder of nature's tremendous wrath for people in Joplin, Mo., a town also hit by one of the country's worst twisters. ... [Published Mother Nature Network - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Tornado

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 1 hour ago - 28 reports

National Weather Service

Thunderstorms, hail slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup

A band of thunderstorms is battering the Oklahoma City area and slowing cleanup operations in the southern suburb where a tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes earlier this week.The National Weather Service said Thursday that the storms ... [Published Gadsden Times - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Tornado, National Weather Service, Oklahoma City

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 7 reports

4-legged friends bring comfort to children injured in Okla. tornado

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (CNN) -- A special group of dogs is bringing comfort to the Oklahoma tornado victims. Their job is to be the calm after the storm.Six golden retrievers and their handlers are on a mission to help, in a way only dogs can.They've come ... [Published Todaysthv.com - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, Lutheran Church, Oklahoma City

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 37 reports

Janet Napolitano

Moore residents allowed back into tornado-ravaged neighborhoods

Forty-eight hours after the tornado, at precisely 3 p.m. Wednesday, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer cupped his hands over his mouth and yelled as loud as he could."OK, everybody. Let's go!"Hundreds of people surged forward as officials reopened the ... [Published Individual.com - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, Mary Fallin, Janet Napolitano, Oklahoma (United States), FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 6 hours ago - 30 reports

Tornado aftershocks: Oklahoma people to lose jobs

The giant tornado that struck Oklahoma City suburb of Moore earlier this week has been felt across the United States, and the US President Barack Obama stated that the country will be besides the victims as long as it takes for those people in Moore to ... [Published Meri News - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, Oklahoma (United States), Oklahoma City, Workers

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 11 hours ago - 58 reports

Oklahoma picking up the pieces

Oklahoma - While the surviving residents of the killer tornado have begun to rebuild their lives, President Barack Obama announced that he will meet with them on Sunday.Local authorities in Moore deemed it safe for everyone who lived within the 27 kilometre ... [Published ENCA - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, Oklahoma (United States), FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency, Barack Obama, John Snow

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 19 hours ago - 49 reports

Rescuers comb tornado rubble for survivors

Abby Madi (L) and Peterson Zatterlee comforts Zaterlee's dog Rippy, after a tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma. Reuters photomore photos Rescue workers with sniffer dogs and searchlights picked through the wreckage of a massive tornado to ensure no survivors ... [Published Hindustan Times - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency, Craig Fugate, Sniffer Dogs

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 26 reports

While Oklahoma staggers, Joplin marks 2 years after its own tornado

While Oklahoma begins to clean up after a ferocious tornado, the site of one of the worst twisters in American history Joplin, Mo., a little more than 200 miles away is marking a solemn anniversary.On May 22, 2011, a tornado all but wiped Joplin off the ... [Published NBCNews.com - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, Roy Blunt, Janet Napolitano

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 56 reports

Oklahoma tornado

A woman searches for possessions at sunset after the suburb of Moore, Oklahoma was left devastated by a tornado. Rescuers went building to building in search of victims and survivors picked through the rubble of their shattered homes on Tuesday, a day ... [Published Chicago Tribune - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, Oklahoma City

Quotes

"I felt the tornado," said Hannah. "People were screaming so loud. My friend said 'It's OK,' and he was holding my hand."

Local Woman's Family Recovering After Oklahoma Tornado [Published WBBJ TV - 6 mins ago]

Paul Mott, a senior forecaster with MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said: "The weather is going to be warming up a little bit, although the weekend is not going to be a scorcher."

Bank holiday weekend to feel more like May as temperatures creep up [Published MSN UK - 7 mins ago]

"He was greatly loved by all who knew him," the family said. "He never met a stranger. You were always a friend in his eyes. Just last Sunday, his grandfather remarked that Christopher was going to play center for the University of Oklahoma someday."

Storm took town's youngest as it swept through [Published Rock Hill Herald - 8 mins ago]

"When our children are at our schools, they are in our care," Pierce said. "When it was time to shelter, we did just that."

Tornado-Battered Okla. School Buries First Victim [Published 13WMAZ - 9 mins ago]

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Blogs

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OKC Update [Published Balloon Juice - 44 mins ago] Betty Cracker–I’m sorry to bigfoot you like this, but I’m posting when I get a chance. You can stomp all over me later, ma’am. From VA Admin office: For Employees:•Impacted Employees: We have now accounted for 100% of our employees. Fortunately, as ...
Tornadoes are Common in Oklahoma City, Basement... [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - 49 mins ago] CNN :It's one of the most familiar pieces of advice from authorities to people in the path of a tornado: Get into your basement. Yet few homes in the Oklahoma City area have them — even though that state is hit by far more powerful tornadoes than most ...
Oklahoma tornado kicks off GOP fight over disas... [Published Daily Kos - 59 mins ago] Sen. Tom Coburn's premature insistence that any disaster relief funding for his home state after this week's devastating tornadoes be offset has kicked off a big fight in the GOP.Most other Republicans have said they don’t need offsets. A number ...
Everybody's Moving to Texas For Some Reason [Published Gawker - 1 hour ago] Texas, a vast desert land populated by terrifying ants, is home to most of America's fastest-growing cities, for reasons that remain unclear.According to new Census Bureau data released today, Texas is home to eight of the 15 fastest-growing cities in ...
Nothing Happens in Washington — Except For This [Published God's Politics Blog - 1 hour ago] What I have heard after visiting 18 cities in six weeks is that people around the country believe that nothing can happen in Washington, D.C. They are basically right. So I am very grateful today to report the one exception. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary ...

Audio/Video

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US volunteers work through Oklahoma rubble [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - 1 hour ago]
Moment of Silence for Oklahoma Tornado Victims ... [Published Rep. Tom Cole - YouTube Channel - 1 hour ago]
Parents saw daughter just before tornado [Published CNN.com - Video - 2 hours ago]
FEMA tornado shelter funding under fire [Published CNNMoney.com - Video - 2 hours ago]
What to do if tornado hits [Published CNN.com - Video - 2 hours ago]

Press Releases

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