Each year, the United States has about 1,200 tornadoes. Many of them happen in tornado alley, a very broad swath of the U.S. that shifts seasonally. This area gets at least ten times more tornadoes ...

"Tornado Alley is a nickname invented by the media to refer to a broad area of relatively high tornado occurrence in the ...

"Tornado alley" usually describes states in the plains, but an uptick in tornadoes in the Southeast has the term "Dixie Alley ...

Natural disasters like heat waves, fires, and floods are growing more dangerous because of climate change, but the effect a warming world has on tornadoes is complicated and incon ...

The Joplin tornado tore through the Missouri city on May 22, 2011. Here’s everything to know about the natural disaster, including the death toll and what the city looks like today.