Powerful storms fire up when that air rushes north and clashes with cold air slicing south from Canada. This happens most often in an area from the Plains to just west of the Appalachians.

A Level 1 risk means that isolated severe storms will be possible. Any stronger storm that develops could bring along with it wind gusts up to 60 mph, hail and heavy rain. Tornadoes are not ...

Greater Cincinnati was thrashed by severe weather Wednesday night and into the early morning hours Thursday, but emerged largely unscathed compared with the deadly storms that swept across the ...

The monthly bounce in contract signings was powered by gains in the South and Midwest, where severe winter storms may have suppressed sales in January. New-home sales fell in the West and plunged ...