Josh Wurman and Karen Kosiba, the researchers inside the mobile radar unit, noted the average wind inside the hurricane’s ...

Tornadoes have caused severe disasters around the world, and have been one of the most violent and damaging natural hazards to human life and property. Experimental simulation of tornado-like vortices ...

Conceptual diagram of the influence of horizontal vortex tubes on tornado genesis and development during the intensification stage: (a) the effect of horizontal vortex tubes on tornado rotation; (b) ...

The Deer Creek Fire created a pyro-vortex east of Moab, Utah, as it burned in mid-July. Credit: Jason Kirks/BLM Around 12:40 p.m. on July 12, firefighters on the Deer Creek Fire, east of Moab, Utah, ...

NORMAN, OK -- The first phase of an $11.9 million experiment to study tornadoes ended with researchers only finding one twister during a 35-day period. The initial phase of the Verification of ...

When invisible dark matter spins, it may form clumps of "vortexes" that stretch across space, forming the cosmic web that ...

It has been a stormy start to June across the central United States, and one of the strongest storms of the week spawned a large tornado on Thursday afternoon that stunned storm chasers on the ground ...

UPDATE (8:20 a.m. 5/25/11)The death toll has risen to 13 across the region with eight people killed in Oklahoma, two in Kansas and three in Arkansas, reports the Associated Press. Rescue crews worked ...

The recently declared La Niña is expected to persist through into the winter. The pattern often fuels increased tornadoes and ...

Eleven school children were among the injured after a tornado suddenly tore through Kuala Langat, Malaysia on5. Reports say 5 schools, one community hall and around 40 houses were damaged by the ...