Arkansas Twisters News

 
Twisters bend, can't break Lamar CC
Pueblo Chieftain
Courtesy: Jason Reedy LAMAR — Tornadoes that struck the Lower Arkansas Valley last week did considerable damage but did not crush the spirit of residents. On April 27, five early morning twisters swept the ground: two in Prowers County, ...


 
More families building their own tornado shelters
The Associated Press
(AP) — When deadly twisters chewed through the South and Midwest in 2011, thousands of people in the killers' paths had nowhere to hide. Now many of those families are taking an unusual extra step to be ready next time: adding tornado shelters to ...

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More Families Building Their Own Tornado Shelters
Insurance Journal
By Phillip Rawls, Holbrook Mohr, Jim Salter | May 2, 2012 When deadly twisters chewed through the South and Midwest in 2011, thousands of people in the killers' paths had nowhere to hide. Now many of those families are taking an unusual extra step to ...

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Crappie, some bass biting at John Martin Reservoir
Denver Post
The 2½-mile dam that creates the prairie reservoir was built to store more than 600000 acre feet of Arkansas River water. And when conditions are right, it can offer some of the best warm-water fishing in Colorado. Most indicators revealed conditions ...


 
One-year anniversary of the historic late April 2011 tornado outbreak
Examiner.com
The outbreak was most concentrated across the Southern and Eastern US from Arkansas to Virginia where widespread and destructive twisters left a catastrophic path of destruction. States most significantly impacted includes: Alabama, Mississippi, ...

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Huckabee picks Faught in 2nd District
Tulsa Beacon
George Faught has been endorsed by former presidential candidate and Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, “I'm proud to endorse George Faught for Congress because he is a man of honesty and integrity, a man of deep Christian faith who we can trust to do ...


 
Should Tornado Alley be redrawn?
KTBS
Texas ranked twelfth, and Arkansas ranked thirteenth. Why does it appear that Tornado Alley is expanding? First, meteorologists have better tools, such as Doppler radar, to detect tornadoes. That means twisters are being detected and reported more ...