WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A major winter storm brought a rare white Christmas to the southern U.S. plains on Tuesday, contributing to a 21-vehicle pile-up that shut down a major highway in Oklahoma, thousands of power outages and the death of a Texas man. The storm system surging east from Kansas and the Texas Panhandle included tornados and severe thunderstorms along its southern fringe, from southeastern Texas to Alabama, the National Weather Service said. The service reported a tornado warning for the Mobile, Alabama area late Tuesday afternoon. ..
Storm brings white Christmas, tornado threat to central U.S.
Posted by getsomenews.com on Dec 26, 2012