The Supercell Foundation Not all thunderstorms can produce tornadoes - only about 30% of supercell thunderstorms actually ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

DALLAS — As severe weather season intensifies, WFAA's meteorologists are breaking down the science behind one of nature’s most powerful and destructive forces: tornadoes. Tornado formation begins when ...

Devastating tornadoes cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and dozens of deaths across the U.S. each year. They upend homes and lives. They remain a constant weather threat for a large ...

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 ...