In honor of the 75th Coal Bucket game being played this Friday, The News-Item is doing a seven-part series where some of the ...

The National Weather Service at Flagstaff officially declared the strength of a Heber-Overgaard tornado, plus a second.

We often say a tornado “touched down,” but that's not technically how a tornado forms. The air inside a developing tornado is ...

Tornadoes are among the most powerful and unpredictable storms on Earth. They usually form from large thunderstorms when the ...

Meteorologist Brandon Lawson talks about the tornadoes that hit the Carolinas this past week and how tornadoes form. Watch ...

Also, be sure to have the WITN First Alert Weather App. It is free of charge in the app stores to download. When a tornado ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Tornado warnings can give people time to seek shelter, but meteorologists still face a fundamental challenge in delivering accurate warnings: determining which storms will ...

Just like pyrocumulus clouds can form from rapidly rising hot air, so can a rare phenomenon known as a "firenado," "fire whirl" or fire tornado. RELATED: Weather IQ: What is a pyrocumulus cloud? Even ...