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Deadliest Tornado Outbreak in Decades Kills Nearly 300

PLEASANT GROVE, Ala. -- Firefighters searched one splintered pile after another for survivors Thursday, combing the remains of houses and neighborhoods pulverized by the nation's deadliest tornado outbreak in almost four decades. At least 297 people were killed across six states - more than two-thirds of them in Alabama,...

Army Corps Preps to Blast Levee to Save Town; Legal Tussle Looms

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- As ominous as a floating hearse, twin barges creep up the Mississippi River carrying a payload of explosives bound for southeast Missouri and a levee facing the prospect of being sacrificed to spare a flood-threatened Illinois town just upriver. The Army Corps of Engineers' tugboat-shoved shipments...

At Least 85 Dead as Tornadoes Devastate South

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Fierce storms obliterated large swaths of land from Mississippi to Georgia, wiping out homes and businesses, causing a nuclear power plant to use backup generators and even forcing the evacuation of a National Weather Service office. The death toll was staggering - at least 85 people killed in five...

Floodwaters Threaten to Overrun Midwest Levees

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Floodwaters threatened earthen levees protecting thousands of homes in the nation's midsection Tuesday, rising so fast in some places that panicked residents didn't have time to pile up sandbags. Storms have unleashed more than a foot of rain across the region, and the forecast offered little hope for...

Storms Could Spawn Tornadoes, Life-Threatening Flooding This Week

The final week of April will be similar to the first three, with dangerous thunderstorms over a large portion of the U.S. The forecast includes the potential for tornadoes, life-threatening flash flooding and large hail in highly populated regions from the southern Plains to the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic region from...

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05/30/12 Storm Team 9: Tornadoes reported as Beryl brings heavy... Source: CBS - Eyewitness News 9 - Greenville NC Tropical Depression Beryl is bringing heavy rain to much of the area this afternoon.
05/30/12 Increasing sunshine today with possible severe weather... Source: CBS - WDBJ 7 - Roanoke VA The cold front should clear the area by Wednesday afternoon.
05/30/12 Death Masked in Smoke and Fog Source: Go Green An insidious killer exists all around you.
05/30/12 Temperature touches 43 degrees in Jammu Source: New Kerala Dot Com The winter capital today witnessed the hottest day of the season with mercury swelling at 43 degrees - about two to three notches above normal, while weatherman forecast severe heat wave in coming days.
05/30/12 Severe thunderstorm warning for Gosper, Phelps, Dawson Source: Kearney Hub - Kearney NE THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF GOTHENBURG...OR 31 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

Background on Meteorology

Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere. Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the 18th century.

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