Tornadoes are among the most powerful and destructive weather phenomena on Earth. These rapidly rotating columns of air are generated by severe thunderstorms and can produce extremely high winds ...

May 11 stands out in Texas weather history for two very different reasons: it's tied to the state's deadliest tornado in Waco and one of its most destructive in Lubbock — storms that also helped shape ...

The strongest tornado ever observed in Canada struck Elie, Manitoba, on a muggy June afternoon in 2007. The storm caused localized but extreme damage when it grazed the small town on the southern ...