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 ...

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 ...

Tornadoes may form from the ground up, rather than the top down. That could sound counterintuitive. Many people may picture a funnel cloud emerging from the bottom of a dark mass of thunderstorms and ...

Tornadoes remain among the most complex and least understood weather phenomena. Scientists still lack full answers about how ...

June is Colorado's most active month for tornadoes. Our state sees a high number of a special type of tornado called a landspout. As usual, a lot of that has to do with the mountains. A supercell is a ...

Colorado barely cracks the top 20 states for number of tornadoes on average but does include the No. 1 tornado county by far over the last five years. That county starts with a "W" but is not Weld ...

NASA scientists don’t know whether the Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a tornado on the sun or if it’s just an illusion.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The National Weather Service confirmed two brief tornadoes from Sunday afternoon storms in the Ozarks. An EF-0 tornado hit four miles south, southwest of Hartville in Wright ...

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