Breaking News: Tornadoes

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Hurricanes Irma and Harvey have left many outside their paths thinking about how they might prepare for a weather emergency.

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George Kourounis has been on the front lines of climate change for years. He has witnessed first-hand the effects of our changing environment.

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This exceptional, sudden loss of sea ice around Antarctica last year was due to a unique one-two punch from atmospheric conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean and around the South Pole.

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Take it from someone who has seen 27 inches of water lap against the living room walls: plan ahead.

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Older adults may still be checking into hospitals for weeks after a natural disaster, past the the expected three days of anticipated injuries and health issues, a new University of Michigan study shows.

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A University of Oklahoma research team with the Advanced Radar Research Center has developed the first numerical polarimetric radar simulator to study and characterize scattering mechanisms of debris particles in tornadoes.

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Some disasters can even be so devastating they require evacuation. In this case it is best to take your furry family members with you.

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For the first time, scientists pinpointed how often storms topple trees, helping to predict how changes in Amazonia affect the world.

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New research out of Florida State University shows that the strength of a tornado has a significantly larger effect than population on the number of casualties.

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Tornadoes and mobile homes don’t mix to begin with, but throw in the volatility of climate change and the potential for massive property damage and deaths is even higher in coming decades, indicates a new study by Michigan State University researchers.

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Remember the butterfly-triggers-tornado adage? Chaos theory says calculating turbulence to find out if that's true must be impossible. Now, physicists are latching onto turbulent patterns with digital optics and math. Their resulting forecasts jibe with actual turbulent flows.

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Better storm surge prediction capabilities could help reduce the impacts of extreme weather events, such as hurricanes.

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Tornado researchers from Texas Tech University and five other schools are participating in a long-range experiment with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Chris Weiss Pitch Texas Tech University researchers will spend the next two months in the Tennessee Valley region collecting data during severe storms as part of the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE), a congressionally-mandated research project. VORTEX-SE aims to study the conditions that produce tornadoes, particularly in the Southeast.

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