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RAW: Twister Rips Roof Off Montana Arena
June 21st, 2010 | 
Author: BILLINGS, Mont. – A tornado ripped through two Billings neighborhoods, peeling the roof off a sports arena and several buildings. No deaths or major injuries were reported.
The tornado touched down at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, running through Main Street and damaging about 10 small businesses in the city’s northeast area before quickly hopscotching toward the 10,000-seat Rimrock Auto Arena about a half-mile away.
The twister hovered for about 15 minutes over the arena, which often hosts concerts and rodeos but was mostly empty Sunday afternoon.
“It would touch down and suck back up and touch down and touch down again,” said Trooper Toman Baukema of the Montana Highway Patrol, who saw the tornado from a patrol station about a mile away.
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Arkansas Searches for Dozens After Flash Flood Roars Through Campgrounds … Many Dead Indentified Are Children
ARKANSAS – Floodwaters that rose as swiftly as 8 feet an hour tore through a campground packed with vacationing families early Friday, carrying away tents and overturning RVs as campers slept. At least 16 people were killed, and dozens more missing and feared dead.
Heavy rains caused the normally quiet Caddo and Little Missouri rivers to climb out of their banks during the night. Around dawn, floodwaters barreled into the Albert Pike Recreation Area, a 54-unit campground in the Ouachita National Forest that was packed with vacationing families.
The raging torrent poured through the valley with such force that it peeled asphalt off roads and bark off trees. Cabins dotting the river banks were severely damaged. Mobile homes lay on their sides.
Our High School Plays This High School in Sports: Ohio Tornado Kills Proud Father of Valedictorian
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AOL News – He was a proud father of three who always watched his kids’ games and was doing well with his own small company. Just hours before his daughter Katie was to speak at her graduation Sunday as the high school valedictorian, Ted Kranz was killed by a tornado that ripped through northwest Ohio.
Kranz was one of seven people killed by the storm in Lake Township, south of Toledo, over the weekend. The tornado, Ohio’s strongest in eight years, also caused about $100 million in damages and ruined or severely damaged 100 houses, including Lake High School, Wood County emergency management director Brad Gilbert said today.
Tornadoes Tear Through Midwest Overnight
At Least 4 Killed as Tornadoes, Thunderstorms Sweep Across Midwest
MILLBURY, Ohio — Tornados and thunderstorms that swept through the Midwest overnight killed at least four people in Ohio, sent several to hospitals, destroyed 50 homes and damaged scores more, as well a high school gymnasium where graduation was to be held Sunday.
Authorities in northwest Ohio are still searching through homes and couldn’t say whether anyone else is missing, Lake Township Fire Chief Todd Walters said. Walters flew over the damage Sunday morning and estimates the storm left an eight-mile path of destruction in a straight line over an area of farm fields and light industry. The storm narrowly missed the heavily populated suburbs on southern edge of Toledo.
Little Darlin’, Here Comes The Sun: Heat Wave Rolling In This Week
AOL NEWS: Summer Is About to Spring in Much of US
Memorial Day is often considered the unofficial beginning of summer, and a developing weather pattern is going to give a large portion of the country its first dose of summer weather — one that might last through the holiday but will not extend into the western part of the country.
The warmth will quickly expand northward through the Plains and Midwest this weekend, with temperatures jumping well into the 80s in Minneapolis, Chicago, and even Detroit. By the middle of next week, the upper-level high pressure system responsible for the warmth will expand. Unseasonable warmth — highs in the 80s and 90s — will extend from the eastern Rockies through the Plains and into the Midwest and Deep South. Some record high temperatures might be broken.
Dr. Hansimian’s Hurricane Forecast
SunnyDayAmerica — May 17, 2010 — The U.S. government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been wrong about its hurricane forecasts three out of the last four years, and 7 out of the last 11 years. The National Center for Public Policy Research believes there may be a better way, so we commissioned a forecast by our own climate expert, Dr. James Hansimian. Visit this YouTube Channel at the end of hurricane season to find out who had the better forecast, NOAA or Dr. Hansimian.
OOOOk-lahoma, Where The Wind Comes Sweepin’ Down The Plain!: 5 Dead, Dozens Injured as Tornadoes Hit Plains
More tornado videos from yesterday on the plains here.
Violent weather flipped mobile homes and sent baseball-size hail crashing through windshields, officials said.
NORMAN, Okla. — Violent storms that tore through the southern Plains killed five people and injured dozens more, leaving behind flattened homes, toppled semitrailers and downed power lines.
Several tornadoes were reported in Oklahoma and Kansas on Monday as the storms moved through the area, dumping hail as big as baseballs and leaving tens of thousands of people without power.
“The kids and I got in the closet and prayed,” said Jamie Keyes, of Norman, an Oklahoma City suburb that is home to the University of Oklahoma. “I heard a hiss. It was like something was whistling very loud.”
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