News about tornado

Severe Weather Awareness Week: When a tornado warning is issued, go to a safe place: interior rooms, basements/cellars, bathrooms. If caught outdoors, go to the lowest area and lay flat covering your head with your arms. For more tornado safety info visit www.weather.gov/safety/tornado! pic.twitter.com/b3XlQ8ii62

Here is the summary for the severe weather that went through early today. A line of showers and thunderstorms moved through the region that brought damaging wind and hail, the largest of which was half dollar sized hail in the Lansing area. #miwx pic.twitter.com/HvTGdbNHtk

Time lapse of the Smithville, MO storm while the confirmed tornado was doing damage. 2nd storm is a time lapse of the storm that put down then Houghton/New London tornado from about a hour and half prior to the tornado. 3rd storm is the next storm south. #mowx #iawx pic.twitter.com/rsJRjXXgKE

On this date in Weather History: A powerful bow echo produced widespread straight line wind damage and 15 tornadoes back on April 19, 2011 (www.weather.gov/media/pah/Top10Events/2011/Bow%20Echo%20April%2019%202011.pdf). Back in 1996, an F3 tornado struck Perryville, MO and another one near I-64 in southern IL. pic.twitter.com/sKIzByWNoj