April marks the onset of intense tornado activity in the U.S., driven by warm, moist Gulf air clashing with cooler masses.

After a powerful storm tears through a town, the real investigation begins. Meteorologists hit the ground searching for ...

After severe weather moves out, a different kind of investigation begins as trained tornado survey teams head into damaged communities to determine exactly what happened. By analyzing official damage ...

March was not kind to the Midwest, which saw round after round of severe storms, including tornadoes, gusty winds and large ...

If you have recently been in or near a tornado, your experience can help improve tornado forecasting!

Atmospheric scientist Perry Samson was doing fieldwork when he was unexpectedly caught inside a tornado—making him one of the ...

Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely ...

After a powerful storm tears through a community, a few big questions often follow: Was it really a tornado? And if so, how strong was it? That answer doesn’t come instantly. Instead, meteorologists ...