tornado

When Maung Oo heard the screams on Friday night, he knew he had to act. Just a few hours before, while at work, he saw the news about an impending tornado and thought about the many warnings that had come before but never amounted to anything. So he went home to his neighborhood in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and went to…

Sarah Farmer is helping Mayfield, Kentucky rebuild after a tornado and devastating storm struck. The community needs food and assistance repairing damaged homes as some families prepare to bury loved ones lost in the storm.

Climate change may not be increasing the number of tornadoes, but some parts of the country are seeing tornado-friendly conditions more often than in the past. NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain explains the science behind the climate shift after a destructive storm spawned several tornadoes that destroyed parts of Kentucky, Arkansas and Missouri.

December is typically the least active month for tornadoes in the United States, but a powerful outbreak of more than 30 tornadoes hit six states in the mid-Mississippi River Valley Friday night, killing at least 88 people. Scientists still have a lot to learn about the connection between climate change and tornado outbreaks because any links between them are “difficult…

At lest two people are dead and dozens injured after a storm caused major damage to an Amazon facility in Edwardsville, Ill.

Tornadoes and severe weather caused catastrophic damage across multiple states late Friday, killing at least six people overnight as a storm system tore through a candle factory in Kentucky, an Amazon facility in Illinois and a nursing home in Arkansas. The Kentucky governor said he feared dozens more could be dead.

Drone video shows the devastation the morning after deadly tornadoes tore through Western Kentucky.

“Before you know it, it was like the building rocked and collapsed and we fell down,” Kyanna Parsons said on video during the disaster.

Trees snapped and some were completely uprooted. That’s what you’ll find in the area of Warren and Willow streets in Cheshire. Debris lies as evidence of how powerful Saturday’s tornado was. Witnesses say the EF-0 tornado swept through this neighborhood with fierce intensity. “It was a big noise. It was quick, but it was awful,” said Luz Castano. Castano...

Residents of Cheshire are cleaning up on Monday after a tornado briefly touched down in the community over the weekend.

A pool of cold air in the middle levels of the atmosphere, an incredibly strong jet stream level disturbance, changing wind direction with height and the overturning of unseasonably warm air as a cold front approached with a shot of more typical November chill all combined for a setup that delivered about as many tornadoes in one small geographic area…

There were four tornadoes in Connecticut on Saturday and they caused damage in Pawcatuck, Cheshire, Branford, Plainfield and the Pawcatuck section of Stonington.

Three tornadoes likely touched down in Connecticut on Saturday as severe weather moved through the state.

NBC CT Meteorologist Rachael Jay talks about the radar-confirmed tornado that touched down in Branford.

The First Alert meteorologists are tracking the chance for severe weather Friday that could include an isolated tornado.