A tornado, _ is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground usually (occur) in the US , _ (affect) several US states greatly.
Hurricanes, which are strong tropical storms, usually _ (strike)the east coast of the US from Texas to Maine, the (bad) one of which caused 6,000 _(die), and (destroy) 3,6o0 buildings.
Here is a story about the worst hurricane. Charles Coghlan, a famous Irish actor, moved to Canada, then New York, and finally Galveston, he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane came. In the hurricane , his cemetery was destroyed and his coffin ended up in the sea, which _ (carry) by the Gulf Stream to his home on Prince Edward Island in the east of Canada eight years _ (late).