One muggy day in July 1986, a news helicopter was recording footage of a festival in Minneapolis when the pilot and photographer glimpsed a tornado over nearby Brooklyn Park. They moved toward it, ...

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 ...

There are more tornadoes in the US than anywhere else on Earth. How do they form? This is in part because of the geography of ...

Few weather phenomena capture the imagination-or instill fear-like tornadoes. These swirling columns of wind can level entire communities in minutes, yet much about their formation remains shrouded in ...

If you live in Ohio, you may have woken up to thunder, heavy rain, and tornado sirens last night. Due to severe weather and rain forecasted for the rest of the week, around 55 Ohio counties remain ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — It wouldn't be Severe Weather Awareness Week, or for that matter, severe weather season if we didn't spend some time talking about tornadoes. Last year, Ohio set a record for 74 ...

Weather Ask the meteorologist: Why do tornadoes hit some areas more than others? Less than 10 days into April, the United States has seen more than 100 reported tornadoes. How do tornadoes form, and ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Nowotarski, Texas A&M University (THE CONVERSATION) Meteorologists began warning ...

Tornadoes are among the most powerful and unpredictable natural disasters, forming under specific atmospheric conditions. These violent, rotating columns of air extend from thunderstorms to the ground ...

Tornadoes are complex and tough to predict but this short documentary from NASA is a good introduction to how they work. Researcher Tim Samaras explains how different weather systems collide across ...