A tornado outbreak and an epic snowstorm can happen in the U.S. on any spring, fall, even winter day. Here at weather.com we call that a "kitchen sink" pattern, when it seems every weather phenomenon ...

The National Weather Service said the EF5 twister in North Dakota packed winds stronger than 200 mph, underscoring risks that ...

This is an F5 tornado, and it’s one of nature’s most destructive forces. Could you survive being sucked in? Yeah, imagine getting scooped up like a meat-puppet. Swirling like a ragdoll at over 480 ...

Year after year, Texas is a hotbed for tornadoes. The state’s geography allows warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico to collide with the cooler, drier air from the west to create the perfect ...

A 12-year “drought” of EF5 tornadoes has ended, after the National Weather Service upgraded a tornado in North Dakota to EF5 status.

Two historic, extreme weather events separated by just over 100 miles happened on one July day in the upper Midwest. On July 18, 1996, 29 years ago this evening, a violent tornado roared through the ...

We've discussed May's deserved reputation for both violent tornadoes and large outbreaks. In Texas, two of its worst tornadoes of all time happened in the middle of May, each in one of the state's ...