When "minutes matter" in severe weather, faster forecasting technology is crucial for saving lives, says one NOAA ...

Going into the details of how tornadoes are formed and what you need to know to keep your family safe and weather aware.

On WRAL-TV and on WRAL.com, our team of meteorologists often references a threat for severe weather on a scale of 1 through ... one severe thunderstorm or tornado warning 44% of the time.

Low-end tornadoes are often the most difficult to warn because often, storms producing rotation don’t always produce a ...

A round of severe and life-threatening storms is expected to sweep through much of Kentucky between Wednesday night and Saturday, likely bringing severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and flash-flooding.

The reason we treat tornadoes and tornado warnings with such respect is the ... This damage is ranked on a scale from EF-0 to EF-5, with EF-0 being the weakest and EF-5 being the strongest.

More than two dozen tornadoes were reported in parts of the Midwest and South through Thursday morning. Severe storms also produced widespread wide damage and hail stones, ranging in size from ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Tornadoes are based on the Enhanced Fujita Scale from an EF-1 (winds ... as it gets funneled under the bridge! The average warning time before a tornado strikes is about 10 ...

Perhaps more notably, the warning claimed that the storm ... the lowest level on the tornado magnitude scale. 13 reached EF1 and one reached EF2 on the one through five scale, while one was ...

The National Weather Service has Clarksville under two weather warnings and is expecting high winds and high rain Wednesday night into Thursday morning.

It highlighted the need for better tracking and warning of tornadoes, especially in high-risk regions. It also proved meteorological theories of the late, great mind of Dr. Theodore Fuijta ...