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CNN) -- An overnight tornado ripped a 20-mile path through southwestern Indiana, killing at least 11 people and injuring 160 others, officials said Sunday. Adam Groupey, deputy director of emergency management for Evansville and Vanderburgh County, said the tornado touched down about 2 a.m. in Henderson County, Kentucky, then hit the Evansville mobile home park before moving into Warrick County. One resident of the trailer park told WFIE of Evansville she saw a tornado pick up a car with members of her family in it and toss the vehicle into a tree. Brandi Crawley said no one was seriously injured....

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is bracing for a spike in noise complaints when a squadron of British warplanes arrives in Tucson next week. Eight Royal Air Force GR4 Tornado jets will touch down Aug. 27 for a month of training that will put them in the skies seven days a week. The British attack jets are notably louder than the A-10s and C-130s typically flown at D-M, and their arrival tends to generate extra complaints to the base's public affairs office, a D-M official said Tuesday. Exact noise comparisons were not readily available, but a 2001 Air Force environmental impact...

We'll see a break from heavy storms today and It'll be warm as well. Severe weather returns Monday with hail and tornadoes possible. After that we'll have a lot of sun and no rain for a few days.

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o doubt about it, it's been a good month for tornadoes even by the "spinny" standards of May, when most twisters occur. Even more predictable than the development of severe storms in spring, however, is the phenomenon of people trying to tie such bad weather to global warming. Witness Tom Toles's cartoon in the May 7 Washington Post, which intoned, "These super powerful tornadoes are the kind of storm we're likely to see more of with global climate change." Who'd he get that from, Al Gore?It has become standard operating procedure in climate-change hype to never bother with inconvenient...

I just had to pass this on to the rest of the gang here at FR. So there I was on a break at work and the discussion got to talking about the tornados that have been wrecking the South. So what does the typical Bill Clinton loving liberal spew? "God created tornados to kill Bush voters."