Tornado Digest: Major outbreak to close April, and the first May threat mid-week
In just a few days at the end of April, we nearly doubled the 2014 tornado count. The outbreak peaked…
Category: Tornado Outbreaks
The 1974 Super Tornado Outbreak (interactive map)
Four decades have passed since a generational tornado outbreak that still lives in infamy. Interactive mapping lets us dive deep…
Videos from the November 17, 2013 tornado outbreak
A major "second season" tornado outbreak struck parts of the Midwest, Tennessee and Ohio Valleys on Sunday.
Top 10 tornado days in the United States
When it comes to top calendar days for tornadoes, May leads all other months with six days falling into the…
Discussing the Super Outbreaks of 1974 and 2011: Was one more “super” than the other?
April is the most volatile month for tornadoes, with plenty of years featuring not a ton of activity, but seemingly…
April 2011: The most tornadoes on record in April
In a "Perfect Tornado Year," April 2011 is arguably the perfect tornado month. 758 tornadoes touched down on 21 different…
North Carolina’s largest tornado outbreak – April 16, 2011
The magnitude of the Super Outbreak of 2011 often overshadows a separate historic tornado outbreak that occurred earlier in the…
Map: April 14-15, 2012 Tornado Outbreak
The largest outbreak of 2012 targeted mainly open terrain but deadly tornadoes impacted Oklahoma after dark. We map out the…
Looking back at the April 3-4, 1974 Super Outbreak
Let's look at the April 1974 outbreak from a different, visual perspective. We use maps to first look at the…
March 1976: The most tornadoes on record in March
In March 1976, 180 tornadoes touched down. The most in any March. Find out why in our in depth look…
Largest winter tornado outbreaks in the United States
Tornado outbreaks happen in winter. We take a peek at the biggest in December, January and February as well as…
Breaking Down the Christmas Tornado Threat: Un-merry Mayhem
The Christmas Day 2012 tornado outbreak was one for the books. We examined the ingredients for the event before it…