According to the National Weather Service, tornadoes are the second leading cause of death from severe weather in the United ...

Tornadoes are vertical funnels of rapidly spinning air. Their winds may top 250 miles an hour and can clear a pathway a mile wide and 50 miles long. Twisters are born in thunderstorms and are often ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Several deadly tornado outbreaks, some with dozens of destructive storms, have swept across the South in recent years. We asked tornado scientist Ernest Agee to explain what causes ...

The Canton tornado in 2017 was classified as an EF-4 with winds topping 185 miles per hour ( FOX 4 ). While those two storms ...