Tornado Alley

Tim Samaras was, along with his son Paul and his tornado research partner Carl Young, killed by a tornado outbreak in Oklahoma and some surrounding states on May 31.

On the second anniversary of the deadly Joplin tornado, a survivor offers words of encouragement to Moore residents.

Residents of the city of Moore are salvaging what they can after a tornado swept through the Oklahoma City metropolitan area Monday afternoon.

Officials named the first student, Ja'Nae Hornsby, who was killed when Plaza Towers Elementary School was destroyed a massive tornado in Oklahoma on Monday.

Pictures of Shawnee, Oklahoma after a tornado tore through the city, from resident Francis Schuetz.

“We will go through every piece of damaged property three times by the time we are done searching,” said the city’s Fire Chief Gary Bird.

Tornado death toll lowered: The death toll on Monday night of at least 51 people included some bodies being counted twice in the early chaos of the storm, according to Oklahoma’s medical examiner’s office.

“You’re going along with life, everything’s good, and then you go into a storm shelter and you walk out and you have nothing,” said Frances Schuetz

“Everyone in Moore will know someone who has lost a house,” Liz Langford, 33, said by phone from Moore on Monday night. “It is heartbreaking for the whole city because it is a close knit community.”

Plaza Towers Elementary School and Briarwood Elementary School were directly hit by the massive tornado that spun through an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday. At least dozen children were believed to have been killed in Plaza Towers.

A tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City, on May 20, reaching wind speeds of up to 200 miles per hour, flattening entire neighborhoods, and destroying Briarwood Elementary School.

A tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour tore across Moore, Oklahoma, demolishing entire blocks and hitting an elementary school, trapping some students and staff.