Tornadoes, those swirling, destructive columns of air, have long fascinated and terrified us. Traditionally, “Tornado Alley” has been synonymous with the Great Plains of the ... Read more The post ...

There's been a notable shift with tornado frequency in North Texas over the last 15 years. Why is that? Is an eastward shift ...

Severe storms earlier this week produced five EF-1 tornadoes but powerful, long-lived tornadoes aren't uncommon either in ...

Dixie Alley is a region whose nickname has come up in recent years, thanks to the increasing trend for tornadoes there. This includes states like Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas and ...

A tornado touches down. Morgan Schneider/OU CIMMS/NOAA NSSL Chris Nowotarski, Texas A&M University Meteorologists began ...

In the Great Plains, drier air in the western boundary of traditional Tornado Alley probably has something ... have a full picture of the role climate change may be playing, we can certainly ...

“The Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) has been near record warmth for quite a while,” he said. “Water temperatures are 1 to 2 ...

“We don’t see evidence for changes in average annual occurrence ... in greater “clusters,” and that the region known as tornado alley in the Great Plains, where most tornadoes occur ...

In what has historically been known as Tornado Alley — a designation that typically includes Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas — the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Several deadly tornado outbreaks, some with dozens of destructive storms, have swept across the South in recent years. We asked tornado scientist Ernest Agee to explain what ...