Tornadoes are among nature's fiercest furies. Despite the destruction they can cause, the mechanism that results in tornadoes ...

and tornadoes most commonly form from these kinds of storms. A frozen form of precipitation consisting of individual balls or lumps of ice called hail stones, produced from cumulonimbus or ...

The vast majority of violent tornadoes form from supercells, thunderstorms with a deep rotating updraft, called a “mesocyclone.” Vertical wind shear can enable the midlevels of the storm to ...

If a storm with these criteria is imminent, your local Weather Service office will issue a severe thunderstorm warning or a tornado warning ... component: the mesocyclone. A mesocyclone (or ...

A tornado watch means conditions are favorable ... Convective Clouds: The vertically developed family of clouds are cumulus and cumulonimbus. Clouds with extensive vertical development are ...

Tornadoes are spinning columns of air that touch the ground from massive cumulonimbus thunderstorm clouds. The central and southern American states of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas get the most ...