Severe weather season is here and one of the dangerous hazards alongside it is tornadoes. It all starts with light surface winds beneath a layer of stronger upper-level winds. This creates something ...

The Enhanced Fujita Scale, love it or hate it, is our current system for rating the hundreds of tornadoes that occur each year across the United States. To much chagrin, it rates tornadoes solely ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — While North Carolina isn’t part of the traditional Tornado Alley, we’re no strangers to severe weather — especially in the spring or during hurricane season. That’s why it’s ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. It’s kicking off a few days early this year, but Minnesota’s tornado season, ...

On the morning of May 11, 1970, skies darkened over Lubbock and winds began to rise, setting the stage for the kind of storm many in Tornado Alley pray never comes their way. By late that Monday ...

Year after year, Texas is a hotbed for tornadoes. The state’s geography allows warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico to collide with the cooler, drier air from the west to create the perfect ...

The NWS said in a June 19 Facebook post that the strongest tornado, documented north of Jacksonville with an EF of at least 2, was not yet plotted. The Enhanced Fujita, or EF, Scale rates tornadoes ...

As the earth's temperature climbs, so does the threat of extreme weather events such as drought, wildfire, hurricanes and tornadoes -- all occurring more frequently at higher strengths, according to ...