These are the most dire outlooks for severe weather NOAA's Storm Prediction Center issues. Here's what they mean and what you ...

The Storm Prediction Center issued the rare "High Risk" area for Mississippi and Alabama overnight, this is not something the agency does lightly and is reserved for only the most serious forecasts.

Check your internet connection or browser settings. Developers in the US are increasingly building into more high risk areas, an FT analysis found, amounting to about 4mn more single-family homes ...

The high risk areas that day were shaded in pink. What does a "high risk" mean? When the nation's best severe weather forecasters issue such a high risk, they're concerned about one of the ...

However, one could argue the density of severe weather reports was higher in areas surrounding the high risk. That case points out that while a high-risk area is typically denoted as "particularly ...