Tornadoes are one of nature’s most fascinating yet terrifying phenomena. While many tornadoes last only a few minutes, some ...

Tornadoes are among nature's fiercest furies. Despite the destruction they can cause, the mechanism that results in tornadoes ...

Meteorologists have gotten a lot better at forecasting the conditions that make tornadoes more likely. But predicting exactly which thunderstorms will produce a tornado and when is harder, and that’s ...

The vast majority of violent tornadoes form from supercells, thunderstorms with a deep rotating updraft, called a “mesocyclone.” Vertical wind shear can enable the midlevels of the storm to ...

The National Weather Service confirmed at least one tornado hit Middle Tennessee Saturday, but there were also straight line winds that created a damage path over a mile wide in Grundy County.

Land spout tornadoes are usually small, brief and relatively non-violent because they are not associated with the powerful updraft of the mesocyclone of a well-developed, severe thunderstorm.

Tornadoes are one of nature’s most awe-inspiring and terrifying phenomena. These swirling columns of air can wreak havoc on ...

Johannesburg’s extreme rainfall on Wednesday resulted in flash floods and power outages. Meteorologists confirm it was a ...

According to the National Weather Service, the tornado developed near Pico Rivera between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. Thursday.

This very severe, long-lived thunderstorm contains circulation aloft (mesocyclone) that grows upward through the storm and downward toward the ground. When conditions are favorable, tornadoes will ...