Tornadoes are a relatively rare event. Only a tiny percentage of thunderstorms ever go on to produce a tornado. No two twisters are alike —and some of those storms are truly bizarre. From twin ...

Tropical Storm Chantal (shahn-TAHL) was the first tropical storm to make landfall and the third named storm of the 2025 ...

According to NASA, the OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) onboard the Landsat 9 satellite acquired images of part of the tornado's scar on June 4, 2025, which was the first mostly cloud-free day ...

A 2024 study on the National Land Cover Database (which is based on Landsat observations) has found that tornado damage to forests in the southeastern U.S. is on the rise, despite a slight decrease in ...

Amid a spate of severe weather across the U.S. Midwest, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions on May 16, 2025, a deadly tornado tore across three counties in Kentucky. It was one of the strongest ...

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On top of the stunning tornado count, multiple new records were set for rainfall. These include the wettest April on record, multiple days with daily rainfall totals shattered, and the 3rd ...

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Minnesota has seen 48 preliminary tornadoes so far this year, topping its average of 46 annually between 1991 and 2010.

According to the National Weather Service office in Wichita, that 101-mph wind gust tied the all-time highest gust ever recorded at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport.

Even though tornadoes can happen any time of the year or at any time of day, they often occur between 4 and 9 p.m. The first tornado of 2024 struck Iowa on April 7, marking the start of a deadly ...