The Great Plains Lose Their Tornado Crown Cities like Dallas and Austin, Texas, are seeing four fewer tornado days per decade ...

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The Sunshine Hills area of Laurel County was hammered by severe storms and a presumed tornado early May 17, 2025. An unconfirmed tornado touched down late Friday in Southeastern Kentucky, leaving at ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The National Weather Service reports that 21 tornadoes have been confirmed in Middle Tennessee. NWS Nashville recently completed its damage surveys for the most recent ...

Experts with the Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) confirmed Friday that a significant tornado outbreak unfolded in Saskatchewan on Thursday, June 19. The outbreak produced ten tornadoes across the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A recent string of devastating tornadoes across the U.S. is underscoring a disturbing trend: while the total number of tornadoes each year is not significantly increasing, the ...

PADUCAH, Ky. (WSIL) -- So far, 2025 has seen the second most tornadoes touched down in a year, tying a record with 2024 across the 58-county region; and we still have another six months left of the ...

An unusually strong thunderstorm prompted an equally unusual tornado warning in Hawaii on Friday morning. Clusters of showers ...

We have already had three days in 2025 with multiple tornadoes touching down in Michigan. The total number of tornadoes so far has already put this year in the top ten tornado years for Michigan. As ...

May in the central and Southern Plains is a notoriously volatile month for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, as recent history has illustrated. On May 20, 2013, 12 years ago today, a supercell ...

A tornado that touched down near Enderlin, N.D., on June 20, 2025, was upgraded to a rating EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, making it the first tornado since May 2013 to receive the rating. The ...

As the earth's temperature climbs, so does the threat of extreme weather events such as drought, wildfire, hurricanes and tornadoes -- all occurring more frequently at higher strengths, according to ...