he National Weather Service explains tornadoes are violently rotating columns of air that extend from the base of a thunderstorm down to the ground. Tornadoes are capable of completely destroying well ...

Spring can bring a dramatic ramp-up of severe weather across the U.S. As the atmosphere warms up after winter, spring can bring a dramatic ramp-up of severe weather across the southern and central U.S ...

The strength of a tornado is measured by the damage that it causes. This is done using the Enhanced Fujita Scale, a modernized version of a system created by Dr. T. Theodore Fujita in the 1970s.

I found myself directly in the path of a tornado, and nothing could have prepared me for the chaos that followed. The sky ...

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 ...

ABC7 Eyewitness News presents a First Alert Weather Special: "Surviving The Storm" ABC7 Eyewitness News presents a First Alert Weather Special: "Surviving The Storm" ABC7 Eyewitness News presents a ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Community members gathered Thursday evening in Fort Pierce for WPTV's Hurricane Preparedness Day, determined not to be caught off guard as they were during last year's devastating ...

When a tornado touched down in Bowling Green in the middle of the night, its violence was centered on a friendly subdivision, where everyone waved at each other and giggling children spent afternoons ...