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While their numbers are few, tornadoes can form over mountain ranges, if the conditions are right. This one in a California ...
One state had the lion's share of tornadoes between 2020 and 2024-but a different state sustained the most monetary damage.
Des Moines, Iowa, Bismarck, North Dakota, and Rapid City, South Dakota, are also at risk for severe storms today, Merrill ...
When severe storms drive flash flooding in Texas, ice and snow shut down streets in Kansas City, Mo., or tornadoes damage vital public facilities in rural America, it’s local public works teams who ...
A series of tornadoes tore through the Midwest Wednesday evening, destroying homes, toppling powerlines and even overturning tractor-trailers on major highways. There were at least 15 reports of ...
The smoothed-out version of South America experienced around twice as many tornadoes as the real-world version. Northeastern Argentina was particularly hard-hit. Conversely, a filled-in Gulf in the ...
Timmer enrolled at the University of Oklahoma to study meteorology in 1998.A month into his freshman year, he went storm chasing, and saw his first tornado. The next spring, he had to shelter ...
On Sunday, May 25, an EF-1 tornado ripped through Puerto Varas in southern Chile in South America. It’s estimated that 50-60 tornadoes occur in Chile each year, but this number could be higher.
Even 100 years later, the Tri-State tornado is widely considered America's worst tornado. It killed almost 700 in an era without warnings or radar.
America's strongest high-elevation tornado on record, rated F4, reportedly uprooted a million trees along its 24 mile path through forested land of northwest Wyoming on July 21, 1987.