A tornado touched down late Friday afternoon in Norman, Oklahoma, bringing scattered structural damage and a taste of more severe weather -- including a tornado outbreak -- expected Saturday in the Plains.
The tornado season of 2011 will go down as one of the most destructive and dangerous in U.S. history.
Talk about steep odds. The building that houses the nation's Storm Prediction Center lay, for a while at least, in the predicted path of a tornado that raked across Oklahoma.
A widespread outbreak of severe weather across the Deep South may be one for the record books, as the National Weather Service received reports of more than 150 tornadoes.
The National Weather Service had already received more than 100 reports of tornadoes by Wednesday night.
Storms in the lower Mississippi valley Tuesday night unleashed baseball-sized hail, high winds and twisters, including one that lifted a tractor-trailer, the National Weather Service said.
Violent storms kill seven people and knock out power to more than 70,000 homes in Arkansas.
Boats are destroyed after Lake Thunderbird, Oklahoma, is hit by a storm.
Much of the Central Plains and Midwest braced for another day of potentially severe weather as residents of Oklahoma cleaned up from a deadly outbreak of tornadoes this week.
Snowstorms and icy conditions on Sunday delayed flights across the northern United States, caused havoc on roads and left thousands without electricity.
iReporter Aaron Cloward recorded and narrated a video showing snow in Walla Walla, Washington.
The Northwest braced for blizzards Friday night while cities from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Boston, Massachusetts, were cleaning up after a major storm delayed air travel and created havoc on the ground.
Tracking storms
updated: Fri Jun 06 2008 10:16:00
CNN meteorologist Reynolds Wolf tracks severe weather from Norman, Oklahoma's Storm Prediction Center.
With the year not even half done, 2008 is already the deadliest tornado year in the United States since 1998 and seems on track to break the U.S. record for the number of twisters in a year
Violent storms rolling across the nation's midsection unleashed tornadoes, high winds and hail in four states and killed at least seven in Arkansas on Friday
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