Storm Shelters: It’s OK To Skip Social Distancing For An Hour If It Means Surviving A Tornado
Most Americans are parked at home right now as we try to slow the spread of a dangerous virus that’s moving through communities here and around the world. But even as we adjust our lives to spare one another, the world continues around us just as…
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A Widespread Threat For Severe Weather Will Cover The Central U.S. On Thursday Evening
A widespread risk for severe weather will develop across much of the central United States on Tuesday as warm, humid air surges northward behind a warm front. Several rounds of severe thunderstorms will develop through Thursday night, bringing the risk…
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Dangerous T’storms Will Roll Through The Mid-Atlantic Just In Time For Trick-Or-Treating
A round of severe thunderstorms will move across the southeast and Mid-Atlantic states through the afternoon and evening hours on Thursday, bringing the potential for widespread damaging wind gusts and possibly even some tornadoes. The greatest threat…
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Strong, Long-Track Tornadoes Possible in Okla., Kansas, and Missouri on Wednesday
Talk about things ramping up in a hurry. Conditions have quickly grown favorable across the southern and central Plains for severe thunderstorms capable of producing strong, long-track tornadoes. The quick ramp-up and lingering feelings from…
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Oklahoma Is Extremely Lucky That Monday’s Severe Weather Didn’t Live Up To Its Potential
The parameters existed on Monday for an intense tornado outbreak on the southern Plains had thunderstorms managed to develop in the warm sector. That didn’t happen. Even though there was plenty of severe weather from western Texas to southwestern…
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A Rare ‘High Risk’ Tornado Outbreak and Flash Flooding Are Likely in Texas and Okla. Monday
Monday could be a high-end severe weather day on the southern Plains, with a threat of severe weather we only see once every couple of years. Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms are possible, beginning in the morning and likely continuing after…
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There’s an Enhanced Risk for Strong Tornadoes in the Mid-South on Saturday
An enhanced risk for severe thunderstorms exists in parts of the southeastern United States on Saturday, the third weekend in a row residents have to look out for an outbreak of dangerous thunderstorms. Today’s risk includes the possibility for…
Read MoreA ‘Significant Tornado and Wind Damage Event’ Is Possible in the South on Saturday
The first significant severe weather outbreak of 2019 is likely to unfold on Saturday across parts of southern United States. An approaching storm system will allow for a dangerous environment in which thunderstorms can grow severe in a hurry. The Storm…
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2018 Is Set To End With The Fewest Tornado-Related Fatalities On Record
A relative lull in tornado activity in 2018 allowed the year to finish with the fewest number of tornado-related fatalities since reliable records began in 1940. Assuming we get through today’s severe thunderstorms without any significant tornadoes, the…
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Photogenic Iowa Tornadoes Get More Coverage Than Storm That Kills 17 in Missouri
Severe thunderstorms killed 17 people in Missouri and produced multiple damaging tornadoes in Iowa on Thursday. The destructive but non-fatal tornadoes in Iowa got more coverage than the deadly thunderstorm in Missouri in large part because the tornadoes…
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