The threat of a severe weather outbreak is growing as millions of people across the eastern United States from Ohio to Kentucky are expecting severe thunderstorms, damaging wind gusts, tornadoes ...

and is widely known for creating the Fujita scale of tornado intensity and damage.

The storms packed estimated peak wind gusts of 115 mph and the trail of uprooted trees and damaged homes and businesses enabled surveyors to map out the three tornadoes' rare, 20-minute tour of ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been tracking tornadoes for decades. Our interactive map, which contains data from January 1950 to Sept. 30, 2024, pinpoints where a cyclone ...