MISSOURI, USA — As St. Louis continues to clean up from its deadly and historic tornado on May 16, the 5 On Your Side VERIFY team wanted to know where Missouri ranks when it comes to the deadly storms ...

Decades before tornado watches, warnings and Doppler radar, this November outbreak in the Tennessee Valley claimed dozens of lives.

Extreme weather is a source of both frustration and fascination. From following a tornado with a drone to tracking the path of a hurricane, we are always trying to better understand our weather. This ...

Tornadoes are among the most dangerous natural calamities on Earth. These natural disasters hold the power of erasing cities, towns and villages off the map within a matter of a few minutes. And the ...

The El Reno tornado, Joplin tornado and Tri-State tornado are among the biggest and most damaging twisters in U.S. history. Tornadoes can be more than a mile wide and have wind speeds greater than 300 ...

Friday, May 31, 1985, was a spring day like any other. Trees and flowers were in full bloom, Memorial Day weekend was in the rearview mirror, and most residents of Pennsylvania, Ohio and southern ...

One of America's deadliest tornadoes tore through a Wisconsin town hosting a circus more than 125 years ago. Gollmar Brothers Circus was in New Richmond, Wisconsin, on June 12, 1899, bringing a larger ...

School doors open in Joplin, Mo., three months after deadly tornado. Aug. 17, 2011 -- For a town desperately seeking a return to some sense of normalcy, the ringing of school bells is more welcome ...

From 1950 to 2020, 2,052 tornadoes swept through Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Forty-eight of those storms resulted in 100 deaths. A July 11, 2008, tornado ...