Cold air tunnels may appear menacing, but they are considered harmless. Here's what officials say about this event, if you ever spot one in Michigan.

The same storm produced baseball-sized hail. The rotating thunderstorm churned over entirely empty prairie lands.

As of Tuesday morning, the local National Weather Service offices have issued a tornado watch across a large portion of the state.

Thunderstorms go through a life cycle with three main stages. First, there is the developing stage. This is when the cloud is ...

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 ...

The angles at which they collide tend to create unstable air and wind shear—two big factors that favor tornado formation. For decades, most of the largest outbreaks occurred across northeastern ...

At 5:33 p.m. on Monday, the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning in effect until 6 p.m. for Allegany, Cattaraugus, Erie and Wyoming counties. Quarter-sized hail (1 inch) is predicted ...

FIRST, WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOW TORNADOES FORM, HOPEFULLY TO, OF COURSE, SPREAD MORE INFORMATION AND DISPEL ANY FEAR, ESPECIALLY AFTER LAST YEAR’S TORNADO OUTBREAKS. SO LET’S START WITH ...

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 ...

HOW DO TORNADOES FORM? : The Houston Chronicle has a step-by-step guide to highlight how tornadoes form. The first 10 days of April brought a total of 166 tornado reports. Most of these occurred ...

These events have been particularly concentrated in the southeastern states, where the combination of warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and cooler northern air masses has created ideal ...