Tornado of the week: Katie, Oklahoma dry line beast of May 9, 2016
Despite minimal attention in the lead up, May 9 ended up producing about two dozen tornadoes, including the first violent…
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May 9, 2016 tornado outbreak videos from the Plains and Midwest
Tornadoes have been confirmed in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Iowa from the first larger daytime event of the year in that…
Historic outbreak sequences: Five major tornado events during the second half of May 1896
For the first case study on outbreak sequences, we examine two weeks of nearly nonstop tornadoes. Twisters brought devastating results…
Examining outbreak sequences: The building blocks of a multi-round tornado event
Every so often, tornado outbreaks come in volleys. In the first part of a series on outbreak sequences, we look…
EF3 and stronger tornadoes are running near historic lows in 2015
Despite a near-normal heart of tornado season in 2015, it's become another year remembered for its lack of activity.
May 31, 1985: A tornado outbreak out of place
You might expect a volley of violent tornadoes in the Plains or the South, but not in Pennsylvania and surrounds.…
Tornado Digest: April delivers the first violent tornado of 2015, and tricky forecasts this week
The EF4 that hit northern Illinois was one of the strongest in the region in decades. Is there more tornado…
Palm Sunday 1965: Southern Great Lakes ravaged by one of the worst tornado outbreaks on record
On April 11, 1965, and over a time span of approximately 12 hours, one of the most infamous tornado events…
Breaking down the Pilger tornadoes of June 16, 2014
On June 16, 2014 a family of tornadoes dropped from a parent supercell moving over northeast Nebraska.
Nebraska is a place for summer tornadoes, especially in June
Nebraska has been in the news a lot lately. Something of a twister apocalypse? Well, not entirely.
The Tri-State Tornado of 1925
On March 18, 1925 a dark "smokey fog" touched down approximately three miles northwest of Ellington, Missouri. It would become…
Videos from the November 17, 2013 tornado outbreak
A major "second season" tornado outbreak struck parts of the Midwest, Tennessee and Ohio Valleys on Sunday.