One muggy day in July 1986, a news helicopter was recording footage of a festival in Minneapolis when the pilot and photographer glimpsed a tornado over nearby Brooklyn Park. They moved toward it, ...

Iowa’s recent bouts of severe weather, including at least two dozen tornadoes that struck Iowa and devastated Minden in late April, raise questions about what causes a tornado. And among what ...

Few weather phenomena capture the imagination-or instill fear-like tornadoes. These swirling columns of wind can level entire communities in minutes, yet much about their formation remains shrouded in ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — It wouldn't be Severe Weather Awareness Week, or for that matter, severe weather season if we didn't spend some time talking about tornadoes. Last year, Ohio set a record for 74 ...

Why do some clouds look like cotton balls while others look like flying saucers? The shapes of clouds reveal different things about changing weather patterns.

Deadly tornadoes have been ripping through parts of the Unites States for weeks. Storms have been leaving a trail of destruction from Texas all the way up to Maryland, and on Monday, 52 tornadoes may ...

Multiple tornadoes touched down in Iowa on Tuesday night and devastated communities across the state. Wednesday was spent assessing the damage and starting a cleanup process that could stretch well ...

The first tornado in Buncombe County in over 20 years touched down in Black Mountain in the early hours of May 9. Several homes were damaged during the storm, trees were uprooted and a communications ...

Tornadoes are among the most powerful and unpredictable natural disasters, forming under specific atmospheric conditions. These violent, rotating columns of air extend from thunderstorms to the ground ...

Most tornadoes form where cold, dry air meets warm, moist air. The moist air is lifted rapidly, and strong winds combine to form a spinning column of air that reaches from a thunderstorm down to the ...