Not all thunderstorms can produce tornadoes - only about 30% of supercell thunderstorms actually spawn these rotating columns of air. Supercells are severe thunderstorms with intense, rotating ...

Jet streams play a key role in how tornadoes are formed. When it comes to tornadoes, you’ve seen them, and you’ve seen what they can do. But do you really know how a tornado forms into that monstrous ...

Soon after a stunning tornado touched down south of North Platte, Nebraska, storm chasers hailed it as “the tornado of the year” — a photogenic funnel that dazzled onlookers for 45 minutes but caused ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The most recent tornado outbreak in Illinois was the biggest the state has seen in the month of December, according to the National Weather Service. At least 26 tornadoes formed ...

A tornado touched down south of Port Orchard just before 2 p.m. Tuesday, the National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed. The tornado was rated as an EF-2 with wind speeds up to 120-130 mph, according to ...

In A Nutshell Scientists identified atmospheric patterns that appear up to an hour before tornadoes form, potentially paving the way for earlier warnings than the current 15-minute average ...

The severe thunderstorms on July 28 produced two damage-causing tornadoes in South Dakota, plus a third across the border in Iowa, according to the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls. The first ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A landspout tornado formed over Chicago's Southwest Side Tuesday afternoon. A FAA contract observer for Midway Airport spotted the landspout near Ogden and Cicero avenues around 3:48 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The National Weather Service has confirmed three tornadoes touched down across southern Tangipahoa Parish during the early morning hours of Monday, October 6, 2025. The storms ...

SITUATION. STILL ONGOING DOWN THERE KAYLA. WE OBVIOUSLY ARE WRAPPING UP SOME OF OUR OWN SEVERE WEATHER BACK HERE THIS WEEKEND. WE’VE NOW GOT UP TO TWO TORNADOES OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED, SURVEYED, ...