For less than a second, the researchers calculated wind speeds of more than 300 mph in a portion of the tornado. “This was a ...

And then a hyperactive hurricane season lured storm chasers to the Gulf Coast ... Then I positioned in Tennant, Iowa, as a mile-wide EF3 tornado crossed multiple highways only a few hundred ...

Storm chasers tend to put this down to one event: the release of the film Twister in 1996. The film, starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt, profiles a team of principled but poorly-funded tornado ...

History was made in 2004 when a record 120 tornadoes touched down in Iowa. Two decades later in 2024 ... Five people died and 35 were injured in the storm system, the National Weather Service ...

Storm chasers and their pursuit of tornadoes caught the public's imagination in 1996, with the release of Hollywood blockbuster "Twister". Its sequel, the imaginatively named "Twisters", opens for ...