Search for tornado survivors a race against time
The human toll rose to at least 122 dead and 750 people hurt. But just nine had been pulled alive from the aftermath. Searchers fought the clock because anybody still alive after the deadliest single tornado in 60 years was losing precious strength two days after the disaster, and another round of storms was closing in....http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/05/25/search_for_tornado_survivors_a_race_against_time/
Deadly monster tornadoes ravage three states
The television station 40/29, citing the National Weather Service, reported that a tornado said by spotters to be up to a mile wide had destroyed the town of Denning, Arkansas, at about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday. Denning, in Franklin County, has about 100 homes....http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43159213/ns/weather/
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The high-powered storms arrived as forecast, just two days after a massive tornado tore through the southwest Missouri town of Joplin and killed 122 people....http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/24/national/main20065936.shtml
After Missouri Tornado, Grim Search for Missing
At least 122 people died, a number that seems likely to rise. An additional 1,500 people remained on the official list of those who remained unaccounted for, which ballooned in a flood of worried phone calls but is gradually shrinking as the names of the living and the dead are scratched off....http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/us/25tornado.html
