Day: May 20, 2024

Hurricanes, tornadoes and floods physically tear apart homes and leave people battered, but the injuries you don't see can be just as harmful and debilitating. Disaster shock and emotional trauma can interfere with functioning throughout everyday life.

Millions of people from the Plains to the Midwest will be on alert for powerful thunderstorms capable of producing damaging wind gusts, large hail and possible tornadoes on Monday, one day after the second derecho in a week blasted through Kansas and Missouri with 100-mph wind gusts and baseball-sized hail.