The highest-rating tornado was an EF-4 that blew through ... Oklahoma on March 14th, now holding the largest hailstone record. A 6.12-inch stone was found in Johnson City, Texas, on May 9th ...

(NOAA) The biggest tornado ever recorded touched down near El Reno, Oklahoma, on May 31, 2013, reaching a width of 2.6 miles and packing winds of 302 mph. Previously, the record was held by a ...

While tornadoes can occur in Indiana at any time, most of the worst storms in the state's history struck in early spring.

It was part of the worst tornado outbreak on record for eastern Nebraska and western ... which he says represents the largest such collection on Earth. Some of the details assigned by Grazulis ...

However, the National Weather Service ranks the Joplin tornado as the deadliest since modern record-keeping began in 1950. Overall, 2011 was the fourth deadliest tornado year in U.S. history ...

Activity in the spring “roared to life,” resulting in the second-most tornadoes on record. Texas was the top state with tornado reports, with 169. There was also an unusually high number in ...

INDIANAPOLIS — This is a compilation of some, but not all, of the most infamous tornado days on record in Indiana. It should be noted that tornado record-keeping prior to 1950 is not very good. This ...

These penetrations of warm air occur most often in the South, and this is where most tornadoes occur in January and February. The February 2008 Super Tuesday outbreak had the largest number of ...

The past 11 years is the longest “drought” in the worst type of tornadoes since the beginning of official records in 1950. Researchers found little evidence that tornadoes were getting weaker.