Tornadoes

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A winter storm has been ripping through the nation's midsection, with thunderstorms, damaging winds and possible tornadoes. One person was struck by lightning and injured in Arkansas, where there are downed trees and scattered power outages...

DENVER (AP) — Storms struck some Rocky Mountain states overnight, launching tornadoes in Colorado and pummeling Wyoming with hail larger than golf balls. Rain provided some help to firefighters wrapping up at a 227-acre wildfire in northern Colorado...

FORNEY, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to survey by air today the damage caused by Tuesday's tornadoes. The National Weather Service says a twister with winds as high as 165 miles an hour touched down in Forney, east of Dallas...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Thousands are still without power and hundreds of homes are damaged after tornadoes ripped across Dallas and Fort Worth. The National Weather Service planned to survey the destruction Wednesday before saying exactly how many tornadoes swept through the region...

DEXTER, Mich. (AP) — The National Weather Service says a slow-moving storm that damaged more than 100 homes in a rural southeastern Michigan community when a tornado touched down included at least one other tornado that caused damage. No serious injuries were reported and crews are expected to survey the damage Friday following Thursday's storms...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — When rescuers found 15-month-old Angel Babcock alive last week in an Indiana field after a deadly tornado killed her parents and two siblings, it appeared as a ray of hopeful news amid the tales of death and destruction...

UNDATED (AP) — The powerful weather system that raked the Midwest is now blamed for 12 deaths, the latest three in the South. Officials in eastern Tennessee say powerful storms packing high winds that stripped roofs and flattened trees also killed at least three people...

A social worker in a group home for the disabled almost lost his life trying to save residents when a tornado decimated much of Joplin, Missouri this spring. Now, his company’s insurance provider is denying him workman’s compensation.

Folks around Casper have been hearing the outdoor warning sirens more than they have in years past. The Natrona County Emergency Management Office wants to remind citizens that the sirens are not only used for tornadoes, but for other severe weather or disasters as well.