A supercell thunderstorm can tower 10 or more miles high. It can spit out pinpoint lightning strikes, drop grapefruit-size hail, rage for hours and traverse hundreds of miles. But the secret to a ...

CORDELL, Okla. — Last Saturday afternoon, the air here smelled sweet and fresh. A mother ship supercell — a kind of rotating thunderstorm — loomed to my west. Raindrops began to fall that looked like ...

When most Oklahomans think of tornadoes, they picture a powerful supercell thunderstorm producing a large funnel cloud. But not all tornadoes form that way. In late May, Oklahoma’s only confirmed ...

Spring is the most active season for tornadoes in the Midwest due to specific atmospheric conditions. Most tornadoes form from rotating thunderstorms known as supercells, which are highly organized ...