Tornadoes

Pfizer had said most of the tornado damage was to a storage facility, rather than its medicine production area.

Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts saw strong thunderstorms early Friday, prompting severe weather and tornado warnings in parts of New England.

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The National Weather Service says a tornado touched down near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport prompting passengers to take shelter and disrupting hundreds of flights.

Video posted to social media showed two funnel cloud formations at the same time near Elgin, Illinois.

NBC 5 Chief Meteorologist Brant Miller explains the reason for the flurry of severe weather including multiple tornados on Wednesday.

Cleanup efforts continued Friday after severe storms — including some that produced tornadoes — tore across a swath of Southern states, killing at least five people as they destroyed hundreds of homes, tossed vehicles into buildings and left hundreds of thousands without electricity.

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At least 10 people were also hospitalized.

Officials estimate 50 to 100 homes were damaged in Virginia Beach after a tornado swept through the area

Helicopter video from NBC affiliate KFOR of Oklahoma City showed destroyed homes in and around Cole, Oklahoma, after a tornado on Wednesday night.

Strong storms including tornadoes, winds and hail have moved through parts of the Central U.S., killing at least three people, causing injuries, destroying homes and leaving thousands without power.

A severe storm ripped through parts of Louisville, Kentucky, triggering what officials think were multiple tornadoes.

Authorities say five people were killed when a tornado tore through an area of rural southeastern Missouri before dawn on Wednesday. The twister caused significant destruction in and around the small communities of Glen Allen and Grassy, about 50 miles south of St. Louis. The tornado was spawned by a large storm system moving through the Midwest and South. That...

Residents across a wide swath of the U.S. are racing to assess the destruction from fierce storms that spawned possibly dozens of tornadoes from the South and the Midwest into the Northeast.

With tornadoes hitting the Midwest and the South, some survivors say that they emerged from their homes to find buildings ripped apart, vehicles tossed around like toys, shattered glass and felled trees.

Tornadoes that tore through parts of the South and Midwest have killed at least 25 people.

“I was getting into my pickup truck and as I got into my pickup truck ready to leave. I looked back and there was the tornado coming up over the hill,” Kenneth Bruton said. “Every single glass window blew out and people were blown back.”

Drone footage shows the destruction in the aftermath of a powerful tornado in Little Rock, Arkansas.

A large tornado moved through Little Rock, Arkansas on Friday.