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 state's earliest known most violent tornado carved through a town, including a college campus in an era decades before the first tornado warning was issued. On June 17, 1882, 143 years ago today, ...

WARREN — For many of the people who attended the standing-room-only discussion of the 40th anniversary of the May 31, 1985, tornado Saturday at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, their ...

“They call F5 tornadoes the ‘finger of God.’ Few have stared one in the face and survived,” said the late Bill Paxton’s character in the movie “Twister.” The “finger of God” nickname originated after ...

For the first time in 12 years, the United States has recorded an EF5 tornado, the most powerful type of twister on the Enhanced Fujita wind and damage scale, the National Weather Service confirmed ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The National Weather Service office in Grand Forks, ND, determined that damage from a June tornado in Enderlin, ND, was the result of a rare and violent tornado. Originally ...

Officials released footage of an EF3-rated tornado blasting an Andover, Kansas school. Thankfully, no students were inside Prairie Creek Elementary when the twister struck. The building will be closed ...

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 ...