A snownado is the snow equivalent of a tornado and can be used to describe snow-devils, snow waterspouts, snow landspouts and ...

Few weather phenomena capture the imagination-or instill fear-like tornadoes. These swirling columns of wind can level entire communities in minutes, yet much about their formation remains shrouded in ...

The Supercell Foundation Not all thunderstorms can produce tornadoes - only about 30% of supercell thunderstorms actually ...

One muggy day in July 1986, a news helicopter was recording footage of a festival in Minneapolis when the pilot and photographer glimpsed a tornado over nearby Brooklyn Park. They moved toward it, ...

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 the US.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — It wouldn't be Severe Weather Awareness Week, or for that matter, severe weather season if we didn't spend some time talking about tornadoes. Last year, Ohio set a record for 74 ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) – During the devastating wildfires impacting several areas in Los Angeles, California, video taken by KTLA from the Palisades fires shows fire tornadoes or fire whirls forming.

A spinning fire vortex spotted on video Friday among the flames in a raging Pacific Palisades wildfire looks similar to a tornado, but scientists are still examining whether it was a rare fire tornado ...