Devastating tornadoes cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and dozens of deaths across the U.S. each year. They ...

Satellite footage captured a storm cell “erupting” in western Nebraska on Sunday night, April 27, as tornado-warned storms ...

Natural disasters like heat waves, fires, and floods are growing more dangerous because of climate change, but the effect a ...

The Trump administration is actively undermining our nation's ability to predict, plan, prepare for, and respond to extreme ...

But predicting exactly which thunderstorms will produce a tornado and when is harder, and that’s where a lot of severe weather research is focused today. Often, you’ll have a line of thunderstorms in ...

“The big takeaway (from our research) is, if you look at the historical tornado occurrences, there is a trend that tornado outbreaks are getting larger,” Widhalm said. “We’re seeing them w ...

A budget proposal for NOAA paints a potentially harrowing picture just two months out from the start of hurricane season.

This often creates a horizontal spin in the air. The leading research on tornado formation says that the horizontal vortex of air turns vertical inside a severe thunderstorm with updrafts and ...

Many National Weather Service offices have seen staff reductions of 20% to 40%, limiting forecasting ability, especially in ...

Research shows there were about a half dozen ... On April 27, when 62 tornadoes killed 247 people statewide, numerous towns in Alabama were devastated, with the hardest hit areas being Tuscaloosa ...

The cuts could cripple US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and ...