A total of 161 people lost their lives in Joplin from the catastrophic tornado, with 158 of those considered to be direct ...

Amid a high-end tornado outbreak, the first one hit the area around 1:39 p.m. central time. Then at 2:20 p.m., an EF2 tornado ...

MISSOURI – The Great Tri-State Tornado, the longest tracked F5 tornado in U.S. history, devastated Southeast Missouri, Illinois, and Southwest Indiana on March 18, 1925, leaving a trail of ...

Grazulis believes Worcester was probably an F5, although it is officially ranked as an F4 by SPC. In the early 1970s, Grazulis collected early tornado footage to create the world’s first ...

News with an ironic twister. A Florida TV station was rocked by a tornado in the middle of a weather broadcast about the possibility of a tornado, shocking live footage shows. Meteorologist Brooks ...

Tornado classifications have evolved since the original Fujita (F scale) was developed in 1971. Under the original F scale, an F5 rating was given as follows: “Whole frame houses tossed off ...

On March 3, 1966, 59 years ago today, an F5 tornado tore a 202-mile long path across central and eastern Mississippi into western Alabama. Of the 58 people killed by the twister, 57 were in ...