Tornado, Kentucky and Missouri
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Weather, Tornadoes and Central United States
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Tornado warnings were issued simultaneously in at least five states on Tuesday afternoon, giving people only minutes to take cover before the destructive storms arrived. As of 5:15 p.m. ET, tornado warnings were in place in Tennessee,
A pair of construction workers in St. Louis had no choice but to sit tight when a tornado, which killed five, passed through the region on May 20.
Missouri and Arkansas have had a busy year for tornadoes, with Missouri ranking third and Arkansas seventh in the country for tornado count, and 2025 is set to be another active year for severe
Just days after an EF-3 tornado ravaged St. Louis killing five people, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley made an in person visit on Monday. Hawley said there is a need for a lot of manpower to start cleaning up and rebuilding.
Dozens of tornados ripped through Midwestern states this weekend, causing millions of dollars in damage and multiple deaths.
A relentless stretch of severe weather that left 28 dead and unleashed destruction across the central and eastern United States in recent days isn’t letting up yet, with millions more in the path of dangerous weather this week.
Additionally, there was no evidence that tornado sirens in the area had been deactivated by the Trump administration's budget cuts — if there was, the people affected by the storm certainly would have noted that fact in interviews.
It's getting more common for a lot of tornadoes to form over a big area in a short period of time — such as the outbreak that killed dozens in Kentucky and Missouri. But the total number of tornadoes each year in the U.