The year’s first deadly US tornado struck after dark Thursday, killing two people in a small East Tennessee community as the first of five back-to-back, jet stream-driven winter storms pummeled ...

(CNN) — Here’s some background information about tornadoes, rotating columns of air that often, but not always, are visible as funnel clouds. According to the National Weather Service, in 2023 ...

The tornadoes, which also injured three people and caused widespread damage, reached wind speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour. By Kate Christobek Two tornadoes touched down in eastern Tennessee ...

A Closer Look at the “Drought” of the Most Violent Tornadoes in the United States Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society “Drought” of EF5 tornadoes is likely due to stricter ...

Authorities said the weather event caused "significant damage" Authorities in Tennessee said a “possible tornado” from the evening of Thursday, Feb. 6, claimed the lives of a mother and ...

After the tornado hits a crew form the NWS surveys the damage. That's when it gets a rating from EF0 with winds of 65-85 mph to an EF5 being the highest with winds of 200 mph. We know ...

A bill making its way through the state Senate would institute a licensing program for certain people who drive Oklahoma's roadways in pursuit of tornadoes and severe weather. The idea faces ...

STORMS ROLLED THROUGH THE AREA EARLY THIS MORNING, AND TODAY WE LEARNED A TORNADO DID TOUCH DOWN SOUTH ... LIGHTNING HIT A HOUSE, BUT OTHER THAN THAT, I THINK WE FARED PRETTY WELL DUE TO THE ...

Hollie Worthington, a friend of Palmer's, said Adams was her soulmate. Years after her husband died, an EF5 tornado hit Palmer's home. The tornado swept through on May 22, 2011, and left only ...