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When the largest tornado outbreak to affect the country since 2021 struck the Midwest and Southeast on March 31, 2023, one Iowa school district faced a tough decision: send the students home early or keep them in the building to shelter. School officials chose the latter. "Many are used to schools closing or sending students home early to avoid travel during winter weather, but when it comes to severe weather, the risks and considerations are much different," AccuWeather Meteorologist ...

If you missed our special, "Mississippi Tornadoes: Recovering and Rebuilding," you can watch it here now.

Tornadoes can wreak havoc on communities in minutes, tearing apart some homes and leaving others untouched. These destructive forces of nature can toss vehicles upside down, throw them onto buildings and cause a board of wood to pierce right through the trunk of a massive tree. But not all tornadoes are created equally, and meteorologists survey the damage they leave behind and rate twisters to put their damage into perspective. The National Weather Service (NWS) conducts storm surveys to provid

It’s been more than a month since the EF-4 tornado tore through the area, leveling buildings, scattering debris and memories for miles, and leaving the majority of residents without a home.

How Rolling Fork, Mississippi, locals have started the recovery process after deadly tornadoes leveled much of the small-knit community in March.

Organizations and charities have showed up to help support the tornado victims in Rolling Fork, Mississippi.

A little over one month after a devastating tornado wiped out much of Rolling Fork, Good Morning America made a trip to the Delta town on Wednesday with none other than Mississippi native Robin Roberts leading the national broadcast. Roberts and company set up shop at the campus of South Delta...

Join Robin as she shares insightful stories, and interviews with the common theme of neighbors helping neighbors in Mississippi.

Mississippi Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith have joined several colleagues in reintroducing legislation to improve the forecasting and understanding of tornadoes and other hazardous weather. The Tornado Observation Research Notification and Deployment to Operations (TORNADO) Act would require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to update its methods...

The 16 WAPT Tornado Relief Drive brought in $11,000 in cash and nearly 30,000 pounds of food for storm victims in need.