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By Zach Maloch, WRAL meteorologist It’s been nearly a week since Friday’s deadly tornado outbreak, and while such severe weather in December is quite the rarity, it’s hard to believe we saw another significant severe weather event since then. A Recent preliminary survey has been released classifying the tornado that blasted western Kentucky last Friday as an EF-4. Winds reached 190 mph over some 128 miles on the ground. That classification is 10 mph shy of…

By Zach Maloch, WRAL meteorologist Five days have passed since Friday’s deadly tornado outbreak, and while such severe weather risk in December is quite the rarity, it’s hard to believe a portion of the country is under another Level 4 risk on Wednesday. A Recent preliminary survey has been released classifying the tornado that blasted western Kentucky last Friday as an EF-4. Winds reached 190 mph over some 128 miles on the ground. An EF-5…

By MARGERY A. BECK, Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — A powerful storm system ushered in strong winds, heavy rain and a chance of tornadoes across the Great Plains and Midwest on Wednesday, with temperatures posed to set record highs in some places only days before the official start of winter. Forecasters predicted likely record-breaking high temperatures in the mid-70s for much of Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and parts of Missouri. The warmth came with dangerous winds…

By CLAIRE GALOFARO and JOHN RABY , Associated Press BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — The little red wagon was strewn upside down on a heap of rubble — a pile of boards and bricks, a mangled blue bicycle, a baby doll. Behind it, there was little more than a hole in the ground where a house had stood. Across the street, the tidy homes on this cul-de-sac were reduced to mounds of lumber. Clothes hung from…

By Zach Maloch, WRAL meteorologist Five days have passed since Friday’s deadly tornado outbreak, and while such severe weather risk in December is quite the rarity, it’s hard to believe a portion of the country is under another Level 4 risk on Wednesday. Friday’s outbreak saw numerous tornadoes. Even though a few tornadoes are possible in Iowa and Minnesota later Wednesday, the greatest impact could be from widespread damaging winds, as storms may travel at…

WASHINGTON — For the fifth time since taking office less than a year ago, President Joe Biden is taking on the grim task Wednesday of visiting an area ravaged by natural disaster to offer comfort and condolences. Biden was headed to Kentucky to survey damage and offer federal support for the victims of devastating tornadoes that killed dozens and left thousands more in the region without heat, water or electricity. More than 30 tornadoes tore…

By Campbell Robertson, Rick Rojas, Azi Paybarah, Eduardo Medina and Jim Tankersley, New York Times After grimly fluctuating death tolls since Friday’s devastating swarm of tornadoes, Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky said Monday that there were 64 confirmed deaths in the state, although he expected that number to rise as crews continued to search through the ruins. “It may be a week or even more before we have a final count,” the governor said in…

By The Associated Press MADRID — More than 50 people were evacuated Monday from areas in northern Spain hit by record flooding following heavy rain and snowfall. Spanish authorities blamed the flooding of swollen rivers for the deaths of at least two people since Friday, and the regions of Navarra and Aragón remained under severe weather warnings. In Novillas, a village of 520 near the borders of both regions, local authorities ordered the evacuation of…

MAYFIELD, Ky. — An Amazon warehouse worker in Illinois who was an outdoorsman and avid motorcycle rider. A Kentucky judge known for his common sense. A “typical” grandmother from Missouri. These were among the dozens of people killed during Friday night’s tornadoes that ripped through five states in the Midwest and South. There were more than a dozen confirmed deaths in Arkansas, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee, but those numbers were expected to rise. Kentucky…

MAYFIELD, Kentucky — Night-shift workers were in the middle of the holiday rush, cranking out candles at Mayfield Consumer Products, when a tornado closed in on the factory and the word went out to seek shelter. For Autumn Kirks, that meant tossing aside wax and fragrance buckets to make an improvised safe place. She glanced away from her boyfriend, Lannis Ward, and when she looked back, he was gone. Later in the day, she got…

By CLAIRE GALOFARO, AP National Writer MAYFIELD, Ky. — Judy Burton’s hands shivered as she gazed up at what had been her third-floor apartment. She could see her clothes still hanging in the closet, through the building’s shredded walls. Across the street, her church was boarded up. A few blocks away, the spire was ripped away from the town’s grand courthouse, its roof caved in. The restaurant where neighbors met for lunch, too, was lost…

By WLEX News New Albany, Ind. — Communities in western Kentucky have been forever changed by the recent tornado. Dozens lost their lives, thousands of homes were destroyed, and towns are left unrecognizable. Winds from the storms were so powerful, that items from affected areas flew away for hundreds of miles. Remnants of the storm brought a piece of Dawson Springs, Kentucky, to the driveway of Katie Posten, in New Albany, Indiana. Crossing the bridge over…

Winds from the storms in Kentucky were so powerful, items from the affected areas flew away for hundreds of thousands of miles. Remnants of the storm brought of piece of Dawson Springs, Kentucky to Albany, Indiana. Show Transcript mhm. Crossing the bridge over the Ohio River is one way to get from Kentucky to indiana. That’s where Katie Posten lives in New Albany. The windows getting so cold, there are no signs of damage in…

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