Modern standards qualify the so-called Tri-State Tornado as an F5, a mile-wide funnel with wind speeds greater than 260 mph. Perhaps the best evidence of its destructive handiwork was found on the ...

Accident of geography The Great Plains has been likened to a funnel ... and a wide, high range of mountains extending from north to south on the west side," says Harold Brooks, a tornado expert ...

Severe weather is moving into Mississippi with a high risk of violent tornadoes, destructive winds and giant hail on Saturday ...