Caught in the Storm tells the story of a deadly EF5 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, and here's why storms are classified this ...

It's one of the nation's most infamous tornado outbreaks, but it also spurred sorely needed improvements in both severe ...

Quite a few Pulaskians spent Thursday hoping that history didn’t repeat itself. It didn’t escape the attentions of many around the area that this week’s severe storms happened to fall on the 51st ...

At the time it was the largest tornado outbreak in U.S. history and produced the longest tracked tornado in Indiana on record Of the seven top/major tornado outbreaks on record in the U.S., the ...

"It’s likely that several of these tornadoes would have been rated F5 using the legacy Fujita scale." Thus, the lack of EF5-rated tornadoes in the past decade is "less due to a weakening of ...

The scale ranked these tornadoes from F0 (weakest) to F5 (strongest). The exact rank is determined by meteorologists and engineers after conducting surveys of damage from a particular storm.

Spring has officially arrived in the Northern Hemisphere and the tornado season, especially in the U.S. east of the Rockies, has been ramping up. From March 13-17, over 100 twisters were reported that ...