NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a massive 'tornado' on the sun in multiple wavelengths. Unlike the Earth, "tornadoes on the sun are controlled by magnetism," according to Space Weather.

They happened in different years, but residents in two major Texas cities were digging out in disbelief on this date from two ...

Under a bright blue sky — unlike the dark and ominous sky on May 11, 1970 — community leaders gathered downtown on Sunday to ...

May 11 marks a solemn double milestone in Texas weather history: the state’s deadliest tornado — and its strongest.

A massive tornado that tore through Lubbock on May 11, 1970, killed 26 people, left more than 500 injured, and caused $100 ...

The United States is home to 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That's more than any other nation ...

In today’s modern rate, it would have been about a billion dollars worth of damage. At the time, it was the costliest tornado in history. Now it’s the Joplin tornado, which caused $3 billion worth of ...

Because tornadoes are so small - in the scheme of weather patterns - they do a “good job of hiding,” and can destroy “pretty much almost all weather instruments.” While weather balloons ...

when 48 tornadoes touched down across the state in a single day—marking the largest tornado outbreak in Minnesota's history. In recent years, the state has seen an uptick in severe weather ...

Two people were on board the train at the time ... tornado was more than 1 mile wide when it hit the coal train, which was near mile marker 132 along Highway 2. Officials from BNSF Railway, the ...

Most tornadoes have struck in the Mississippi Valley and Southeast, east of the traditional Tornado Alley. For the first time in eight ... front on April 29. The largest initial threat comes ...