A pair of construction workers in St. Louis had no choice but to sit tight when a tornado, which killed five, passed through the region on May 20.

A strong storm system coming out of the Great Plains brought severe thunderstorms to the Midwest on Thursday, including a reported tornado that swept through a small Wisconsin city, damaging businesses and homes, forcing road closures and downing power lines, the authorities said.

Tornadoes are predicted across swaths of the U.S. in the coming days, likely adding to this year’s already high tally of such storms

A multi-day outbreak of severe thunderstorms that rocked the Midwest has shifted toward Oklahoma and will continue into early next week. According to the National Weather Service in Norman, the first round of severe weather on Sunday,

At least nine people were killed after a tornado hit southeastern Kentucky, while another seven died in Missouri.

Storm systems sweeping across parts of the U.S. Midwest and South have left at least 23 people dead, many of them in Kentucky, where what appeared to be a devastating tornado