The United States is seeing its quietest year for tornadoes in more than a decade. Of course, for the victims of the savage EF-5 tornado that blasted Moore, Okla., in May, the season was anything but ...

DONGOLA, Ill. (AP) -- When Donna and Eddie Goins started rebuilding on the spot where a tornado destroyed their house last year, Donna insisted on only one thing -- a ``safe room'' in the basement.

It was the last Sunday in April six years ago when La Plata Police Chief Cassin Gittings got the call. A tornado had ripped through his town. Gittings's first reaction: No big deal. Major tornadoes ...

ELLSINORE -- When a tornado leveled the Piney Woods Truck Stop and the adjacent Cedar Inn in April 2002, the only thing left were the gas pumps. Instead of being defeated by the destruction of their ...