The El Reno tornado, Joplin tornado and Tri-State tornado are among the biggest and most damaging twisters in U.S. history. Tornadoes can be more than a mile wide and have wind speeds greater than 300 ...

The Old West was dangerous long before modern weather warnings existed. Tornadoes struck without notice, flattening towns and throwing locomotives, safes, and entire buildings through the air. The ...

Big stories need big space. Sometimes, newspapers spread out such articles over several pages, or “jumps,” in a single issue. At other times, we launch a series. Tornadoes are big stories. When it ...

The tornado in Clark Mills on June 22 killed three people, the first recorded tornado deaths in the county since at least 1950. But a man died in a tornado in Canastota last year. New York recorded ...