Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Series of Tornadoes Batters Midwest

Emergency workers were picking through debris after tornadoes rampaged in western and central Kansas and northern Oklahoma for a second night in a row. A slow-moving storm packing tornadoes and hail battered rural Oklahoma on Saturday, destroying several buildings, tearing up trees and tossing a mobile home onto a highway. The bodies of two storm victims were found in Kansas. Powerful storms packing large hail, heavy rain and tornadoes made for a deadly Memorial Day weekend across the nation's midsection, killing at least seven people in Iowa and a 2-year-old child in Minneapolis. At least 20 people were unaccounted for after a swift storm blew through the St. Paul suburb of Hugo, damaging about four dozen homes. In northern Colorado, meanwhile, officials were thankful the tornado that damaged 596 homes in Windsor on Thursday hadn't caused more casualties. One man died -- at a campground outside neighboring Greeley. About 100 people were treated for broken bones, cuts, scrapes and bruises, and three were hospitalized for stress.

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