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The present tornado warning system in the US, NEXRAD give false alarms at least 75% of the time. In order to develop a better system, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and some university researchers are working together and have been...
Spain’s Fernando Echavarri and Anton Paz have won the Olympic sailing gold medal in the fast Tornado catamaran class.
In a July 9 story on doubts raised about a tornado video recently used by news organizations, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that it was shot by the storm chaser who said it was doctored footage of a twister in Nebraska four years ago. He was...
A storm chaser accused of doctoring old tornado video and selling it under the pretense that it was taken last week in Nebraska denied wrongdoing Thursday, suggesting that professional jealousy was behind the allegation.The Associated Press and video...
The Associated Press and video services operated by CBS and NBC have pulled video allegedly taken of a tornado in Nebraska last weekend after questions were raised about its authenticity.A tornado chaser has claimed that the video was a doctored version...
Residents say they were warned well before a tornado struck their small town, destroying six homes and damaging others.Sheila Zinke said the sounding of the town’s tornado siren Monday gave her and visiting relatives time to get to shelter.”I was...
A tornado tore through several towns in northern North Dakota on Monday, destroying at least one building, damaging others and injuring at least two people, authorities said.The National Weather Service said the tornado was reported in Rolla at 3:30 p.m....
Residents of this town nearly wiped off the map by a tornado are extending assistance to another Kansas community struck by a twister a year later.Greensburg, in southwest Kansas, was mostly destroyed by a tornado that rated 5 on the Enhanced Fujita...
As residents in Hugo begin to move on from last week’s tornado, some say they noticed a few bizarre things amid all the damage. Jason Akins said the twister unwound a roll of toilet paper in his bathroom _ draped it across the countertop, then rewound...
Roy Crump III says there’s only one way he can describe why he is alive and graduating as one of the valedictorians at Enterprise High School, with a chance to shake hands Thursday night with first lady Laura Bush.”I think it was a miracle that I...
The National Weather Service says a deadly tornado that leveled half a town in northeast Iowa was the state’s strongest twister in 32 years.The tornado tore through Parkersburg and nearby towns on Sunday, killing seven people and destroying...
The present tornado warning system in the US, NEXRAD give false alarms at least 75% of the time. In order to develop a better system, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and some university researchers are working together and have been...
With energy generation becoming the need of the hour - it may be time to do away with the wind farms and their discontinuous maneuvers, as the future of energy generation could take tornado’s refuge.
It’s perhaps a weird thought - and one would...
The real-life twisters still puzzle scientists with their mysterious devastating capabilities. To understand them better, the scientists are taking up several methods and models inside the labs. One of these, are the tiny igloos capable of amazingly...
Nature has once again shown its merciless fury. It was on Thursday, tornadoes tore through southern Alabama, sweeping along with it 18 lives, 15 of whom are from Enterprise High School, according to emergency officials.
Dennis Feltgen,...
A storm system that killed at least seven people in Alabama on Thursday ripped through Georgia Thursday night, reportedly leaving at least three more dead. The burst of tornadoes was part of a larger line of thunderstorms and snowstorms that stretched...
Pix: A National Weather Service weather balloon, right, sits ready for launch in the Upper Air Inflation Building at the National Weather Service, Thursday, April 27, 2006 in Sterling, Va.
A 6-foot helium balloon, not for an advertisement display,...
For many Americans, this April may have been a pleasant spring, but it is not the same for environmentalists. They say April 2006 proved to be the warmest on record for the United States. According to the National Climatic Data Center, the average...
To add to the list of storms, and hurricanes and tornadoes this year, three tornadoes have touched down US cities Saturday evening. It swept across central Iowa on Saturday, damaging homes in several towns and sending college football fans running from a...
Sunday was a day of devastation for residents of western Kentucky and Indiana. It was another nightmarish barbarism of nature. A tornado with winds exceeding 158 mph ripped a path of destruction across the states. It reduced homes to splinters and left...
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Spain’s Tornado crew Fernando Echavarri, right, and Anton Paz sail during the medal race of the Tornado class sailing competition of the 2008 Beijing Olympics in Qingdao, about 720 kilometers southeast of Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. They won the...
