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 ...

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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 ...

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.

The average tornado is on the ground about five minutes. The most destructive and deadly tornadoes occur from supercells, which are rotating thunderstorms with a well-defined radar circulation called ...

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

For instance, if radar detects a strong mesocyclone but low-level atmospheric conditions—such as wind patterns and stability—do not support tornado formation, a forecaster may opt to issue ...