A powerful, wide-reaching spring storm is threatening parts of the central and eastern US, with a life-threatening outbreak of long-lived and strong tornadoes possible in some areas. Follow here for ...

Damage surveys provide crucial information about when, where and how strong U.S. tornadoes are to better understand disaster ...

Each day this week, the Des Moines Register will be presenting one of the daily maps for RAGBRAI 2025. Here's today's. In the ...

to the rare EF5 (incredible damage), based on the most severe damage observed along a tornado's path, not by any other real-time metric such as Doppler radar or their appearance on video.

Some of the more notable tornado touchdowns in Kentucky included the EF5 that touched down just southwest of Hardinsburg (Breckinridge County) and then slammed into Brandenburg (Meade County ...

Despite their rarity, these high-intensity storms are responsible for a disproportionate number of tornado-related fatalities. Data indicates that EF4 and EF5 tornadoes account for approximately ...

Together, these tornadoes caused damage costing more than $50 million. An F5/EF5 tornado has never been recorded in Bexar County. Over the past 8 years, only two tornadoes have touched down in ...

The most recent EF5 tornado in Texas was the Jarrell tornado in Williamson County north of Austin on May 27, 1997, with peak winds of more than 260 mph. Meanwhile, the last EF5 tornado in the ...