Year after year, Texas is a hotbed for tornadoes. The state’s geography allows warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico to collide with the cooler, drier air from the west to create the perfect ...

On April 3rd 1974, the town of Tanner, Alabama was struck by not one but two F5 tornadoes in a single day, leaving ...

A tornado outbreak and an epic snowstorm can happen in the U.S. on any spring, fall, even winter day. Here at weather.com we call that a "kitchen sink" pattern, when it seems every weather phenomenon ...

Tornadoes are a relatively rare event. Only a tiny percentage of thunderstorms ever go on to produce a tornado. No two twisters are alike—and some of those storms are truly bizarre. From twin ...

JARRELL, Texas — Twenty-eight years ago this week, on May 27, 1997, a catastrophic F5 tornado struck Jarrell in Williamson County, leaving a trail of devastation and claiming 27 lives in the Double ...

Experts predicted a one in 100 trillion chance homes would be struck twice. May 21, 2013 — -- For the residents of Moore, Okla., the damage wrought by Monday's E-F5 tornado was all too familiar.

We've discussed May's deserved reputation for both violent tornadoes and large outbreaks. In Texas, two of its worst tornadoes of all time happened in the middle of May, each in one of the state's ...