The chart above uses available NOAA data to show a meteoric rise in catastrophic events, largely due to severe storms like the ones currently hitting the South and Midwest. From 1980 to 2000, 96 ...

A violent storm system that included at least one unconfirmed tornado ripped across Kentucky, destroying homes, businesses ...

A relentless stretch of severe weather that left 28 dead and unleashed destruction across the central and eastern United ...

A dangerous tornado threat unfolded Monday, as severe storms targeted major cities like Tulsa, Wichita, Kansas City, Omaha, ...

A relentless stretch of severe weather that left 28 dead and unleashed destruction across the central and eastern United ...

Storm systems sweeping across parts of the U.S. Midwest and South have left at least 23 people dead, many of them in Kentucky ...

Monday is probably the peak, but a storm risk shifts eastward Tuesday. Cities in the highest risk for tornadoes include Minneapolis and Rochester in Minnesota.

Days of unrelenting heavy rain and storms that killed at least 18 people worsened flooding as some rivers rose to near-record levels and inundated towns across an already saturated U.S. South and ...

A week of powerful storms that swept through the South and Midwest, killing at least 16 people ... which will likely lead rivers to overflow and cause major flooding across the Ozarks, portions ...

At least two reports of observed tornadoes were noted Friday evening in Missouri ... hail and flash flooding. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said entire neighborhoods in the hard-hit town of Selmer ...

Flash flood threat looms over many states Flash flood emergencies were issued Friday night in at least seven cities in Missouri ... the number of closures were likely to increase with more ...