Amid a high-end tornado outbreak, the first one hit the area around 1:39 p.m. central time. Then at 2:20 p.m., an EF2 tornado ...

A total of 161 people lost their lives in Joplin from the catastrophic tornado, with 158 of those considered to be direct deaths. The official reports also list nearly 1,000 injur ...

I’ve been in this business 25 years and I’ve never in my career had a tornado hit the studio. This is a very, very ...

Grazulis believes Worcester was probably an F5, although it is officially ranked as an F4 by SPC. In the early 1970s, Grazulis collected early tornado footage to create the world’s first ...

Tornado classifications have evolved since the original Fujita (F scale) was developed in 1971. Under the original F scale, an F5 rating was given as follows: “Whole frame houses tossed off ...

Tornadoes in the U.S. typically increase sharply in spring. Unfortunately, a few of those can be violent tornadoes, particularly in the South. On March 3, 1966, 59 years ago today, an F5 tornado ...