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  • Video: Woman says bank locked her and boyfriend out as tornado approached

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  • Growing trend of personal storm shelters in the Ozarks

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  • Twisters keep returning, but Oklahoma still short on shelters

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  • Joplin pastors spend emotional 2 year anniversary of their EF5 with the victims of Moore's EF5

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  • At tornado-hit school, colored stickers and pencils litter ruins

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  • Blake Shelton planning Oklahoma tornado benefit concert

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  • Tonight @ 10: KSPR's Joanna Small talks to woman who survived the Joplin tornado & the Moore tornado

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  • Photos: Monster tornado flattens Moore, Okla.

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