The lightning strikes really increased as the thunderstorms yesterday started producing tornadoes. Let’s look at the path of those highly electrical thunderstorms. You’ll notice the tight path of a ...

Chicago was struck by an extreme storm on Monday and a video of a "tornadic supercell" forming from space has gone viral on social media. The video was posted by the US StormWatch Twitter page and so ...

New research from North Carolina State University has found that wind patterns in the lowest 500 meters of the atmosphere near supercell thunderstorms can help predict whether that storm will generate ...

The Supercell Foundation Not all thunderstorms can produce tornadoes - only about 30% of supercell thunderstorms actually spawn these rotating columns of air. Supercells are severe thunderstorms with ...

Tornadic supercell in Hondo, Texas, where a possible tornado touched down Wednesday night A possible tornado was spotted 11 miles west of Hondo. Damage on the road and power flashes were observed, ...

ABSTRACT Polarimetric radar observations obtained by the NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory mobile, X-band, dual-polarization radar (NOXP) are used to investigate “hook echo” precipitation ...

DENVER (CBS4) - A massive supercell thunderstorm developed in extreme southeast Colorado early Saturday evening and it produced a large, rain-wrapped tornado in the extreme southeast part of Las ...

As the name should imply LPs are characterized by their lack of precipitation. It’s not that they have no rain, just little of it. LPs lack for rain because the environment they form in lacks for ...

Two vans of a storm-chasing tour company were hit by a smaller satellite tornado of the twister that hit the Lawrence area on Tuesday. Silver Lining Tours said in a Facebook post that its vans were ...

LA MIRADA, Calif. (KABC) -- A rare tornado touched down in Southern California Thursday and conditions were continuing Friday for the possibility of more forming during this week's powerful storm. By ...

In late May 2019, at least seven tornadoes were reported within a 24-h period in southern Chile (western South America, 36°–38°S), including EF1 and EF2 events causing substantial damage to ...