For decades, meteorologists and emergency managers have relied on the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC ...

'Conditional intensity' changes the way severe weather risks are forecasted.

Destructive storms blasting through parts of the Midwest spawned tornadoes that hit Indiana and Illinois, as near-hurricane force winds swept parts of the region.

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The National Weather Service has confirmed five tornadoes from an outbreak over the weekend and more storms are possible this ...

Researchers at the University of Kansas have shown the National Severe Storms Laboratory's Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS) has potential to help weather forecasters issue warnings to emergency managers ...

Hundreds of homes vanished beneath the black cloud that descended on May 20, 2013. The violent tornado that forever scarred Moore, Oklahoma, took less than ten minutes to carve from one side of town ...

Severe thunderstorms are expected Thursday afternoon and evening in Monroe County, with the potential for isolated tornadoes. The county is under a tornado watch until 9 p.m., according to the ...

An EF-1 tornado ripped through Highway 741 in Port Barre Saturday night, tearing the roof off a home a couple had lived in ...

Why the U.S. once banned the word “tornado” in weather forecasts and how one successful forecast reshaped public safety.

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