There are more tornadoes in the US than anywhere else on Earth. How do they form? This is in part because of the geography of ...

Few weather phenomena capture the imagination-or instill fear-like tornadoes. These swirling columns of wind can level entire communities in minutes, yet much about their formation remains shrouded in ...

The atmosphere can become a perfect storm factory when specific conditions align. Recent scientific breakthroughs and ...

One muggy day in July 1986, a news helicopter was recording footage of a festival in Minneapolis when the pilot and photographer glimpsed a tornado over nearby Brooklyn Park. They moved toward it, ...

From hundreds of miles above Earth, the scars left by a deadly supercell over Mississippi resolve into two unnervingly ...

Devastating tornadoes cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and dozens of deaths across the U.S. each year. They upend homes and lives. They remain a constant weather threat for a large ...

Jet streams play a key role in how tornadoes are formed. When it comes to tornadoes, you’ve seen them, and you’ve seen what they can do. But do you really know how a tornado forms into that monstrous ...

LAWRENCE (WISH) — Storm Track 8 meteorologist Ryan Morse recently visited the ELC at Amy Beverland Elementary School in Lawrence. It was a day spending time with 200 kindergarten students and giving ...

A satellite photo from March shows a pair of parallel tornado tracks in Mississippi, leftover from a deadly storm system that ...