Tornado History Archives - Page 3 of 5

We're all familiar with Tornado Alley and that much of the continental U.S. faces at least some risk from tornadoes.…

The Joplin tornado will forever be burned into our memories. We look at how it happened and what it did.

One the worst tornadoes in U.S. history hit Waco in 1953. The Texas Collection at Baylor University has a fascinating…

April is the most volatile month for tornadoes, with plenty of years featuring not a ton of activity, but seemingly…

In a "Perfect Tornado Year," April 2011 is arguably the perfect tornado month. 758 tornadoes touched down on 21 different…

Let's look at the April 1974 outbreak from a different, visual perspective. We use maps to first look at the…

2012 tornado data was recently published by the Storm Prediction Center. We take a quick look at how it broke…

In March 1976, 180 tornadoes touched down. The most in any March. Find out why in our in depth look…

3,300+ tornadoes in one year. Crazy? Yes, and no. It's happened, just not in consecutive months across one season!

While not necessarily mainstream, storm chasing is much more common these days compared to the past. Some crazy footage came…

Almost as much as tornado videos go viral, pictures of damage are quickly spread with speculation as to what rating…

Tornadoes have been part of the historical record for a very long time. It wasn't until the 1800s that advances…