The 2011 tornado disasters affirmed an unavoidable fact that, if violent enough, even when there are many warnings, a tornado that impacts population centers can cause dozens of deaths.

Not every landfalling hurricane produces a tornado, but others cause major outbreaks. ... Of the combined 117 U.S. tornado deaths in 2019 and 2020, 113 were in Southern states.

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Devastating tornadoes cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and dozens of deaths across the U.S. each year. They upend homes and lives. They remain a constant weather threat for a large ...

Nighttime tornadoes are twice as likely to be fatal as daytime tornadoes, and overnight tornadoes are almost 2.5 times as likely to cause a death.

Strong storms including tornadoes, winds and hail have moved through parts of the Central U.S., killing at least three people, causing injuries, destroying homes and leaving thousands without power.

In 2015, Congress called on NOAA to conduct a southeastern counterpart to its Great Plains tornado studies, known as VORTEX, to better understand the deadlier nature of tornadoes in the Southeast.

Joshua Farmer huddled in a church closet in Ohatchee, Alabama, on March 25 and waited to die. "Legitimately, I thought that was it," Farmer said of that moment in the path of a tornado bearing 140 ...

Five tornadoes touched down in southern Wisconsin Wednesday afternoon, here's a complete breakdown of each tornado including ...