Tornado History

Spring madness: The most extreme tornadoes of the 1990s

We narrowed down the most memorable tornadoes of the 1990s. You helped decide which one ended up the winner of…

9 years ago

New Jersey’s deadliest twister and the first scientific tornado study in the United States

Even in the 1830s, a large tornado between New York City and Philadelphia drew crowds in its aftermath.

9 years ago

Hurricane Katrina also caused a tornado outbreak

Best known for being a Category 5 monster that inundated New Orleans, five dozen twisters also scoured the landscape during…

9 years ago

Palm Sunday 1965: Southern Great Lakes ravaged by one of the worst tornado outbreaks on record

On April 11, 1965, and over a time span of approximately 12 hours, one of the most infamous tornado events…

10 years ago

Killer winter tornadoes: No strangers to Mississippi and the South

A nightmare before Christmas arrived in the form of deadly tornadoes across parts of the South on Tuesday.

10 years ago

Breaking down the Pilger tornadoes of June 16, 2014

On June 16, 2014 a family of tornadoes dropped from a parent supercell moving over northeast Nebraska.

10 years ago

A tornado’s cost: Living in a tornado alley

There are a number of regions across the United States that see an exorbitant amount of tornadoes in a given…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

The Tri-State Tornado of 1925

On March 18, 1925 a dark "smokey fog" touched down approximately three miles northwest of Ellington, Missouri. It would become…

11 years ago