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 National Weather Service confirmed at least one tornado hit Middle Tennessee Saturday, but there were also straight line ...

A ir Force meteorologist Captain Robert Miller arrived for his forecasting shift at the weather station on Tinker Air Force ...

However, a couple hours later, a strong mesocyclone moved out of Alabama and into the southern part of Middle Tennessee — more specifically, Grundy County, where the town of Palmer sustained ...

A major tornado watch has been issued for three U.S. states on Sunday morning. Major storms have been hitting much of the ...

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 ...