The definition of a tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air, but tornadoes aren't the only weather phenomenon that match ...

Most people picture tornado science the way Hollywood frames it: a lone truck racing down a flat highway, dust swirling, dramatic music swelling. The reality is more deliberate, more technical, and in ...

When most Oklahomans think of tornadoes, they picture a powerful supercell thunderstorm producing a large funnel cloud. But not all tornadoes form that way. In late May, Oklahoma’s only confirmed ...

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We don't yet fully understood the science of tornadoes, but we get a surprising number of them in Ireland every year ...