At Least 18 Dead As Killer Tornadoes Once Again Sweep Across Central
U.S.
Sunday, May 11, 2008 | 1:31 AM ET
A tornado that spun across the Oklahoma-Missouri border killed at
least 18 people as severe storms raked the region on Saturday,
injuring many and mangling buildings in the storm-weary region.
At least 12 people were killed after severe storms spawned tornadoes
and high winds across sections of southwestern Missouri, the State
Emergency Management Agency said. Ten of the dead were killed when a
twister struck near Seneca, near the Oklahoma border.
At least six people were killed as the tornado flattened the
northeastern Oklahoma town of Picher, authorities said. Hail the size
of golf balls and high winds were re****ted in the area.
The death toll in Oklahoma could climb, said state Emergency
Management spokeswoman Michelann Ooten. The Picher tornado caused
major damage in a 20-block area, she said.
I know they are going through the rubble, trying to find people
missing," she said. "There are numerous injuries."
Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry issued a statement saying a major emergency
response was underway. He planned to visit the area Sunday.
The tornado apparently picked up a trailer and slammed it down on
garbage bins at a glass plant in the southeastern Oklahoma community
of McAlester.
Officials at the U.S. National Weather Service said the twister then
skipped across state lines and ripped through southwestern Missouri.
A tornado damaged buildings and pulled down trees in Stuttgart, Ark.
The Weather Service said trees were down across a wide area of the
southeast Arkansas city and that an elderly woman was re****ted trapped
in her home.
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(anthropogenic global warming) has been
discovered. And recent global climate
behavior is not consistent with AGW model
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*Dr. Richard Courtney, a UN IPCC expert
reviewer and a UK-based climate and
atmospheric science consultant
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