March 18, 1925, began like any other Wednesday in the Heartland. It didn’t stay normal for long; when the day was over, it ...

"Then the air was filled with 10,000 things. Boards, poles, cans, garments, stoves, whole sides of the little frame houses, in some cases the houses themselves, were picked up and smashed to earth.

The culprits ranged from dust storms and fires in the Southern Plains to tornadoes in the Mississippi Valley and the South.

A quirky aspect of the way we measure twisters helps explain why there hasn't been a top-tier-rated tornado in 12 years.

While the United States experiences tens of thousands of thunderstorms each year, they come in different types. Here's what ...

On that date, a monster EF5 tornado tore a 17-mile path through the Oklahoma City suburbs, creating "40 minutes of terror" for people on the ground, as the headlines read the next day. It killed ...

Even by Plains standards, this was an unusually large, violent tornado outbreak so early in spring. One Kansas tornado was ...

The Supercell MAKE contest for Clash of Clans has been announced, allowing players to design the next temporary troop for 2025. Creators can showcase their creativity and potentially win the cash ...

It may be hard to believe that with an average of 1,200 tornadoes each year in the United States, we haven’t seen an EF5-rated twister in more than 11 years. But that doesn’t mean the number ...

NORMAN, Okla. – Research recently published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society suggests that the record-long drought of EF5 tornadoes is due to stricter use of damage ratings ...