By Vickie Frantz, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer Jun 11, 2011; 11:30 AM ET Laura Cobb, 11, cleans debris from a bathtub while helping with clean-up at her destroyed home in Joplin, Mo., Monday, May 30, 2011. Four members of her family escaped injur...

LONDON (Reuters) – Tornadoes that swept through southern U.S. states last month could cost the insurance industry up to $6 billion, risk-modeling agency RMS said on Tuesday. The tornadoes, which struck Alabama and neighboring states in late April, w...

Damage surveys and the hunt for missing victims continues today in the areas devastated by last week's historic tornado outbreak. With the death toll in the 340 - 350 range, the April 25 - 28 tornado outbreak has surpassed the April 3 - 4, 1974 Super O...

PLEASANT GROVE, Alabama (Reuters) – The government ramped up efforts on Saturday to help thousands of homeless victims of the country's second deadliest recorded tornado outbreak, which killed at least 350 people. President Barack Obama, who surveye...