Tracking destructive and deadly tornadoes in the US, in maps and charts

More than 1,000 tornadoes roar across the United States in an average year, causing billions of dollars in damage and killing scores of Americans. Track them here.
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A loud, prolonged roar: Michiganders recall deadly F5 tornado 70 years later

Seven-year-old Eileen Herrmann’s entire world changed on April 3, 1956. With the 70th anniversary of the worst natural disaster in West Michigan just a day away, Herrmann’s memories of that spring day ...
Kansas City Star

After tornado hits Kansas town, daylight shows wreckage. ‘You could hear the roar’

Randy and Gwen McCurdy stood on their porch off Main Street on Monday night in Ottawa, Kansas, scanning the sky for signs of the storm. Then the sirens sounded. “There was no rain,” said Randy McCurdy ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

‘Tremendous roar’: 30 years later, residents recall F3 tornado that struck Fort Smith, Van Buren

Janet Spears had just gone to bed one spring night in 1996 when her bedroom door opened and she saw the windows in her living room shatter. A tornado was passing through her Van Buren neighborhood.