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, ...

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 ...

There are more tornadoes in the US than anywhere else on Earth. How do they form? This is in part because of the geography of the US. (AP video/Laura Bargfeld; Production/Shelby Lum; Animation/Eva Mal ...

DALLAS — As severe weather season intensifies, WFAA's meteorologists are breaking down the science behind one of nature’s most powerful and destructive forces: tornadoes. Tornado formation begins when ...

Jet streams play a key role in how tornadoes are formed. When it comes to tornadoes, you’ve seen them, and you’ve seen what they can do. But do you really know how a tornado forms into that monstrous ...

LAWRENCE (WISH) — Storm Track 8 meteorologist Ryan Morse recently visited the ELC at Amy Beverland Elementary School in Lawrence. It was a day spending time with 200 kindergarten students and giving ...

MIKE MOSS SAYS: Tina, Once a thunderstorm produces a tornado, it becomes severe by default whether it satisfies the other criteria for severe storms (hail of .75 inch or greater diameter and/or wind ...

Violent tornado outbreaks, like the storms that tore through parts of St. Louis and London, Kentucky, on May 16, have made 2025 seem like an especially active, deadly and destructive year for ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The National Weather Service confirmed two brief tornadoes from Sunday afternoon storms in the Ozarks. An EF-0 tornado hit four miles south, southwest of Hartville in Wright ...