Tornado Relief

When a tornado strikes, your donation helps the Red Cross provide shelter, food and comfort to families. When a tornado strikes, your donation helps the Red Cross provide shelter, food and comfort to families.

The Red Cross is currently providing financial assistance after several recent tornadoes

Learn more about the help that may be available to you if your home was damaged in one of these events:

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Floods and Tornadoes in Alabama & Mississippi »
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If you are in immediate need of help, please contact your local Red Cross » or find an open shelter »

How the Red Cross Responds After a Tornado

Tornadoes strike quickly, leaving communities around the country devastated in their wake. In the aftermath of a severe storm or tornado, the American Red Cross provides many relief services, including:

Shelter and feed residents

Distribute clean-up supplies such as shovels, rakes, tarps, and work gloves

Conduct damage assessment of homes impacted by storms

Provide mental health support, including counseling for families impacted by storms and tips on self-care and how to cope with the aftermath

Connect loved ones separated after a storm via services like Safe and Well

Previous Tornado Relief Efforts

Red Cross volunteers drive to the scene of tornado damage

Southern & Midwest Tornados and Storms - 2023

After deadly tornados swept across the South and Midwest in March and April, 2023, American Red Cross disaster workers worked around the clock to provide comfort and support to people in need.

Read about our relief efforts

Southern & Midwest Tornados - 2021

After a devastating and destructive tornado outbreak on December 10, 2021, more than 570 trained Red Cross disaster workers from all over the country answered the call to help people in the hardest hit communities across four states: Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee.

Read about our response

Tennessee Tornado - 2020

Early Tuesday morning on March 3rd, a deadly tornado tore through Nashville, Tennessee, and surrounding counties, killing over two dozen people.

American Red Cross disaster workers provided shelter, relief supplies and emotional support for survivors.

Read about our response in Tennessee

Southern Tornadoes and Storms - 2017

Thousands of residents in the Southeast are coping with heartbreaking loss and destruction caused by the severe storm system that tore through the region. Storm damage is so severe that many impacted neighborhoods remain inaccessible.

Oklahoma and Midwest Tornadoes - 2013

In May 2013, a series of devastating tornadoes brought heartbreaking destruction to communities across central Oklahoma.