But have you ever stopped to wonder why the Great Plains, and by extension the country as a whole, gets the lion's share of our annual planetary quota of tornadoes? I hadn't—mostly, I suspect ...

Australia and all European countries combined. Within the US, every state has had at least one tornado, and some have dozens each year. The US is special in terms of producing so many tornadoes ...

A survey team of meteorologists from the National Weather Service office in Indianapolis determined that a tornado that ...

The most active day for tornado reports was April 26, 2024, when a series of storms across the U.S. produced more than 100 ...

The National Weather Service’s warning about the “particularly dangerous situation” in which any new fire could explode in ...

More serious tornado warnings (which are updated rapidly ... Meanwhile, much of the country will have higher-than-usual temperatures this weekend, with highs that are 15-25 degrees above average ...

The North State has the dubious honor of having the first tornado of 2025 in California, possibly in the whole country, Powell said. It was also the latest of at least 12 tornadoes spotted in ...

after tornadoes and thunderstorms barreled across a swath of the country on Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring more. The storms, which have also brought flash flooding and power ...

Dozens of tornadoes hit as Hurricane Beryl and Hurricane ... Though the number of wildfires in the country has been trending generally downward, the number of acres burned in those fires has ...