Flash flooding and tornadoes killed three people in Arkansas late Thursday and early Friday.
The warm temperatures also contributed to conditions that were favorable for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.
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The two storm measurement systems are similar in scale to the ones that measure hurricanes and tornadoes.
Friday evening's weather came after flash flooding and tornadoes killed three people in Arkansas late Thursday and early Friday.
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Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes are threatening to pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through Monday.
And tornadoes do present advantages of sorts: They come with warning, unlike earthquakes.
Heavy winds, hail and tornadoes are possible, the National Weather Service says.
Flooding, lightning and tornadoes associated with the remnants of Allison have claimed at least 35 lives and left at least 13 others injured.
Nonetheless, its storm surge -- joined by heavy wind, rain and tornadoes -- left a swath of destruction from east Texas to Alabama.
If there is any global warming topic non-scientists should examine as an understandable proxy for the global debate as a whole, the alleged link between global warming and tornadoes is it.
The government service has returned to its core mission of providing raw data, such as warning of hurricanes and tornadoes, and leaves the more specialized work for specific industries and companies to the private sector.
The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Iowa and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, flooding, and tornadoes beginning on June 1, 2010, and continuing.
The devastating storms and tornadoes that have swept across Missouri, Alabama and other parts of our nation this week are a vivid reminder that disasters of all kinds can strike at any time, and it is vital that all of us, including members of our nation's emergency management team and the American public, are prepared to act.
The vast storm front shattered homes and businesses around the Midwest and South with tornadoes and high winds.
Even though forecasters can now identify conditions favorable for tornadoes, they still cannot predict exactly when and where tornadoes will touch down.
In the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, it poured torrential rain and spawned tornadoes in the Deep South.
Along a path pocked by shattered homes and businesses, the storm unleashed tornadoes and dangerous winds, easily flipping cars and trucks in Georgia.
The alarmists claim global warming will cause more and stronger tornadoes because the Gulf of Mexico will become warmer, enhancing the contrast between the two air masses.
The most destructive and deadly tornadoes develop from rotating thunderstorms.
On Wednesday, the threat shifts farther east, with parts of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia at moderate risk of severe weather, including damaging winds and isolated tornadoes, the Storm Prediction Center said.
With our training we have been able to perform search and rescue for missing persons, provided rehab to firefighters working fires big and small, run shelters for persons displaced due to hurricanes, and even assisted with assessing damage due to tornadoes and severe storms.
So far this year we have seen destructive and deadly weather in the form of rain, tornadoes and flooding, and these are very serious calamities.
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The predicted severe storms come as five National Weather Service offices in Missouri and Kansas are conducting an experiment on how to better convey risks from tornadoes and severe storms.
There also was some concern about wildfires and convective storms that produce tornadoes, thunderstorms and other undesirable weather events.
"In the last three years we have set records for the most tornadoes in 12 consecutive months and the least number of tornadoes in 12 consecutive months, " Brooks said.
Destructive tornadoes and severe storms tore through the South in late April, killing hundreds of people.
Although there have been no calamities on the scale of Hurricane Katrina, tornadoes and rain have caused considerable damage.
Friday's storm was particularly treacherous because the rotation was wrapped in rain, made frequent sudden turns and spawned multiple tornadoes.
The severe weather came after tornadoes and powerful storms ripped through Oklahoma and the Midwest earlier Monday and on Sunday.
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Jindal reported four storm-related deaths: two people were killed Tuesday night by tornadoes and two others by carbon monoxide poisoning.
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