During the late afternoon and evening of Monday, July 27, a tornado touched down in rural southwestern Manitoba and was tracked by tornado chasers for three continuous hours. This is an extremely long ...

Editor’s note: The Focus on Research column highlights different research projects and topics being explored at Penn State. The following originally appeared on The Conversation. Storm-chasing for ...

Tornadoes can sometimes produce damage that seems almost mystical. But even the most freaky tornado stories have a perfectly explainable cause. For example, there are often reports of straw embedded ...

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) – Eight months after a tornado laid waste to much of this city, Joplin is wrestling with an emotional question: Should the community market its devastated neighborhoods to tourists?

Q: The tornado sirens once again wailed recently, warning the city when the threat was actually to the south of the city and moving east. ... Is it possible to divide Blue Earth County into quadrants ...

MISSED HOME. ONE OF THOSE IS THE GREEN SKY. A LOT OF PEOPLE REPORTED SEEING THAT, LIKE YOU SAID, AND IT ACTUALLY HAS NO CONNECTION TO TORNADOES. I’M GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT IT IS CONNECTED TO IN JUST A ...

Editor's note: This story contains minor spoilers for the movie "Twisters." Almost three decades ago, Oklahoma meterologist Kevin Kelleher was tapped to help the cast and crew of the movie "Twister" ...

Though not unusually high, there has been an active start to the tornado season this year. Starting in December, there have already been several tornado outbreaks in the South. It is fairly common for ...

AVERAGE FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH. RAIN TOTAL? YEAH, 2.8IN BELOW NORMAL FOR THIS MONTH SO FAR. SO IT’S KIND OF A GOOD AND A BAD THING THIS FORECAST, RIGHT. IF YOU HAVE TO DRIVE THROUGH THE HEAVY RAIN ...

Are you scared of tornadoes? Have you ever been curious why they form and why sometimes they don’t? Join meteorologists Tom Trtan and Tom Schmidt to find out what’s needed for a tornado to form. Plus, ...