11.   STORMS-ALABAMA -- Rescue crews frantically searched through the rubble of homes for survivors today after a tornado ripped through one town after another just outside Birmingham.

12.   That very afternoon a huge tornado ripped through town, flattening a retail area just a few blocks away.

13.   The Dawsons, like many residents in tiny Bridge Creek, had no insurance and were financially wiped out when a tornado ripped apart their mobile home.

14.   The tornado ripped shingles off her roof and flung them into trees and across her yard.

15.   The tornado ripped through Parsons a year ago this month.

16.   Tornadoes ripped through Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama Friday, and gale winds downed power lines and trees across Mississippi and Louisiana.

17.   Tornadoes ripped through Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday, but no major injuries were reported.

18.   When a tornado ripped through the Berkshires, shattering the town of Great Barrington, Weld was in Los Angeles.

19.   A tornado ripped the roof off a hospital and damaged several blocks of homes in this central Kansas town Saturday night, authorities said.

20.   Emergency officials said they believe two tornados ripped through a densely populated part of this north Mississippi community Saturday night, blowing houses off their foundations.