Sentence examples for fierce tornado from inspiring English sources

The big question for next spring is whether El Niño persists or instead yields to its often more deadly opposite: La Niña ruled much of 2011, the year when a fierce tornado devastated Joplin, Missouri, and killed 158 people.

Related: In photos: Vehicles tossed onto buildings in fierce tornado in Mexico; 13 dead.

Then, swiftly and cruelly, like a fierce tornado looming in the sky, Mom's sunshine was snuffed out with a sinister force.

If something is discrete and it happens -- like a forest fire or fierce tornado -- it's easy to grasp and we can react to it, but when we have the build-up of these heat-trapping gases globally and then people say, "what do we do?" And this is the kind of challenge where it's not just California -- we're one percent of the problem.

As of Thursday night, there was only one person officially unaccounted for in Tuscaloosa, where fierce tornadoes left dozens of people dead.

Witnesses said Monday's tornado appeared more fierce than a giant twister that was among the dozens that tore up the area on May 3 , 1999 killing more than 40 people and destroying thousands of homes.

Larry Vannozzi, a meteorologist with the weather service, attributed an unusually high number of "supercells," the fierce storms that spin off tornadoes, to the rare clash of a number of fronts at once.

A9 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Storm Paralyzes CityAnd Unleashes a Tornado A brief but fierce storm drenched the New York region just before the morning rush, paralyzing the transit system, flooding major thoroughfares, cutting off power to thousands of homes and unleashing a tornado that whipped Brooklyn with winds of up to 135 miles an hour.

Fierce weather that struck Texas crossed the border early Monday into Mexico, sparking an unusual tornado that hit Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila state, killing 13 people — ten adults and three children.

Then I yelled: 'Tornado!

And now this tornado".