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COLUMBIA, S.C. — At least eight tornadoes struck South Carolina on Tuesday last week, approaching the state's yearly average in a single day.

The shortage is hitting at a vulnerable time.

When the funnel was spotted, people in a city generally without basements had to look for shelter elsewhere.

Knowing the difference between tornado watches and warnings can mean the difference between life and death.

Some 22 million people are under threat from the severe storm system in the South.

DALLAS — Severe storms tore across much of North Texas Monday evening, with a tornado damaging a high school in Jack County, emergency crews launching a search-and-rescue effort in Montague County and The National Weather Service issuing several tornado watches and warnings from Fort Worth to Austin.

An outbreak of tornadoes struck from Arkansas to Iowa to Ohio, and several alerts didn't reach residents for two to seven minutes.

News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS) (NASDAQ:NWSA) believed the China government was behind a recent hack of its computer systems, Bloomberg reports. News Corp disclosed an unnamed cloud service used by News Corp was the “target of persistent cyberattack activity.” The company discovered “attack activity” on Jan. 20 on a system used by several businesses, affecting a…

On the warmer side of the storm, tornadoes in Alabama have killed at least one person and wounded several others.

The storm is set to hit the hardest in the South, where icy roads and power outages could lead to blackouts.

A massive storm forming over the central U.S. could stretch from the Rockies to northern Texas to upper New England, according to predictions.