The rain across the Midwest and Great Plains that’s closed refineries, flooded streets and snarled Mississippi River traffic shows no sign of abating, adding to the U.S.’s wettest 12-month stretch on record. Heavy showers will fall from Texas to the …
A relentless barrage of violent weather in the central United States left three people dead on Thursday, local media said, as tornadoes raked across southwest Missouri and devastated the state capital, and heavy rain flooded rivers in Oklahoma. The reported …
The U.S. Coast Guard partially opened the Houston Ship Channel near Bayport, Texas, on Saturday after a collision spilled an estimated 9,000 barrels of a gasoline ingredient into the water. The waterway was opened to one-way tow traffic between Light …
Severe thunderstorms blasted the U.S. East Coast with gusts of wind up to 50 miles per hour on Monday morning, knocking out power in thousands of homes and putting several states on flood watch, the National Weather Service said. More …
The small device soared to nearly 250 feet, cruising and hovering over the part of town where a tornado was believed to have landed late Tuesday afternoon. It was a drone, which was being used late Thursday morning to assess …
A recent decline in the accuracy of tornado warnings is not as alarming as it may appear, weather officials say. Forecasters are doing well with storms that produce strong tornadoes – those that measure EF-2 or higher on the Enhanced …
River levels are falling after record and near-record flooding in parts of the Midwest, but the crisis is far from over. Downpours that dumped up to a foot of rain in parts of the nation’s midsection last weekend led to …
The National Weather Service uses 122 colors to communicate the weather. There are watches, warnings and advisories arrayed on website maps in a Crayola box worth of colors. Tornado watches come in yellow, blizzard warnings in scarlet and storms in …
Tricia Clarke stood on a Lakeway hilltop, winds threatening to snatch the ball cap from her head, and pointed across miles of rolling, scrub-covered limestone countryside, past the distant blue line of Lake Travis, to a spot nearly 55 miles …
Officials raised the number of tornadoes that swept across North Texas over the weekend to 10, with preliminary figures showing the twisters caused $1.2 billion worth of insured damage. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the Insurance Council of Texas …