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Why some storms turn into tornadoes

The Supercell Foundation Not all thunderstorms can produce tornadoes - only about 30% of supercell thunderstorms actually spawn these rotating columns of air. Supercells are severe thunderstorms with ...
DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado’s weather has been active over the past week, spawning four tornadoes on Sunday, May 18, that preceded another group of tornadoes over Colorado on Friday, May 23. The ...
COLORADO, USA — While tornadoes are not unusual in Colorado, the strength of those that hit the state on Sunday stands out. Three of the twisters — two near Bennett, about five to 10 miles southeast ...
Nearly 900 tornadoes have torn through more than 30 states so far this year, killing dozens of people, shredding buildings and landscapes across big chunks of the Eastern U.S., and costing billions.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A landspout tornado formed over Chicago's Southwest Side Tuesday afternoon. A FAA contract observer for Midway Airport spotted the landspout near Ogden and Cicero avenues around 3:48 ...
Sometimes beautiful weather videos are planned ahead of time by storm chasers (like with the supercell time lapse video last week), and sometimes they just happen. Science teacher Kyle Perri caught ...
ROCK HILL, S.C. — On Tuesday evening, a towering, rotating thunderstorm known as a supercell was seen in York County. A WCNC Charlotte viewer, Kari Smith, sent stunning drone photos of the storm to ...
Rising temperatures are driving an increase in cyclones, lightning, and thunderstorm events worldwide. A recent study published in Science Advances highlights the link between rising global ...
The 2025 tornado season was good to this novice storm chaser, with a half-dozen twisters in the books. What will next year bring? We’ll see. An EF-U tornado with invisible vortex churns up dust in ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado’s weather has been ...