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Tornado rips through southern Mississippi, leaving 19 dead

Tornado rips through southern Mississippi, leaving 19 dead

A powerful weather system swept up the U.S. East Coast on Monday with pounding rain and high winds, potentially snarling travel for millions after tornados killed at least 19 people in Georgia and Mississippi over the weekend. Emergency management officials warned New York City residents to brace for winds of up to 70 mph (112 […]

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78 dead, 500 hurt by storms in eastern China

78 dead, 500 hurt by storms in eastern China

Jun 23, – Whole villages were levelled and huge trees felled when winds of up to 125 kilometres (77 miles) per hour struck around Yancheng city, China’s official news agency said. Hurricane-force winds, freak hailstorms, pounding rain and a tornado killed 78 people in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu on Thursday and injured nearly 500 […]

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Obama visits Oklahoma, consoles tornado victims

Obama visits Oklahoma, consoles tornado victims

May 27, AP – The extraordinarily powerful twister that struck Moore was known as an EF5, ranking it at the top of the enhanced Fujita scale used to measure tornado strength. President Barack Obama on Sunday visited tornado-devastated Moore, Oklahoma, consoling people staggered by the loss of life and property and promising that the government […]

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No new funds required for Oklahoma tornado recovery

No new funds required for Oklahoma tornado recovery

May 22, WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has more than $11 billion in its main disaster relief fund. Recovery costs in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore are expected to be a relatively small fraction of that amount. The devastating 2011 tornado that wiped out much of Joplin, Mo., for instance, required about $750 million […]

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Deadly tornado torn through Oklahoma City suburb killing dozens

Deadly tornado torn through Oklahoma City suburb killing dozens

May 21, AP – Rescuers were working to reach survivors into early Tuesday morning after a tornado with winds reaching speeds of up to 200 mph (320 kilometers) devastated the city of Moore, just south of Oklahoma City on Monday. A deadly tornado has torn through an Oklahoma City suburb, killing dozens of people and […]

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