The death toll from the multiple-vortex tornado that hit Joplin, Mo. Sunday has risen to at least 142, the city's manager said at a news conference Saturday. One hundred people are still missing, a ...

Intense tornadoes are capable of producing destructive winds of more than 300 km/h. These whirlwinds can reduce the mightiest oak tree to splinters and entirely demolish a solidly built home. All that ...

Lou White, a Facebook follower of mine in Kentucky, asked me about tornado debris in his home county. That county is Leslie County, Kentucky, which borders with the far southwest corner of Virginia.

A violent weather system swept through parts of North Texas on Sunday evening, as a multi-vortex tornado was reported just north of I-20 near Gordon, Texas, around 8:10 PM, and a powerful wedge ...

(CNN) — Multiple tornadoes and intense storms hit the eastern half of the United States on Tuesday as a relentless severe weather pattern that left 28 people dead in recent days began to wind down.