The 1925 Tri-State Tornado ripped through three states in hours, leaving scientists stunned—here's what really happened when ...

Overturned trains. Timber found miles away from where it had been stored. Trees felled. Fires and close calls. A letter that flew almost 100 miles. On a normal day in the Midwest in 1925, any one of ...

Discover the strongest tornadoes ever recorded in the world, including the deadliest and most powerful tornadoes by wind speed, destruction and intensity. Tornadoes are among the most powerful and ...

The tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, on Sunday, May 22, 2011, killed 158 people and was rated EF-5, with winds greater than 200 mph. The National Weather Service describes it as the deadliest ...

We’re coming into “tornado season” now – a majority of strong to violent tornadoes (F3+ ratings) typically occur between March and June. The bottom chart above shows that all of the ten most deadly ...

Wisconsin's deadliest tornado struck New Richmond in St. Croix County on June 12, 1899, the worst in state history. More than 100 people and countless livestock were killed in the agricultural ...

The April 2011 Super Outbreak was one of America's worst tornado outbreaks in modern history, capping off a historic month of twisters in the U.S. Fifteen years ago, the April 25-28, 2011, Super ...

A new 'Megastorm' episode revisits Alabama's deadliest tornado outbreak, featuring survivor interviews and dramatic footage from April 2011.

Friday is the 15-year anniversary of the Joplin tornado, which tore a six-mile-long and up to a mile-wide path of devastation through the southwest Missouri city. One hundred fifty-eight people lost ...

When most people think of tornado activity in the U.S., the Tornado Alley sweeping through the Great Plains comes to mind; you wouldn’t expect North Carolina to have a tornado alley. However, there is ...