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A tornado touched down in central Illinois Saturday, police said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries.

Tornadoes ripping through central Arkansas late Friday killed at least three people, injured 25 others and destroyed several ...

Rescuers spread out Sunday to scour neighborhoods of splintered homes and twisted debris in Mississippi, a day after storms that spawned multiple tornadoes sliced through the state and killed 10 people, including three children.

Tornadoes touch down on the South, damaging numerous homes and buildings in Mississippi and Louisiana.

Weather forecasters say the wetter-than-usual El Nino winter that has blasted much of the United States could be followed by an ...

The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for eastern Contra Costa County today after a trained spotter reported a funnel cloud near Brentwood. Tornadoes are rare in California and almost unheard of in the Bay Area, but this is the second time this week the weather service has issued a warning locally. Santa Clara County was put under a tornado warning Wednesday afternoon. No twister materialized.

It never fails. Whenever a natural disaster hits, somebody always risks bodily harm to take some video amid the chaos and destruction. Insane? Perhaps, but the fact is that footage from Mother Nature blows away anything you'll see in a summer blockbuster.

The National Weather Service says at least five tornadoes hit Colorado, and one damaged a mall in Aurora on Sunday.

It sounds like the movie "Twister" -- teams of scientists in vans, armed with high-tech measuring equipment, barreling across the Oklahoma plains in search of tornadoes. But these scientists are colleagues, not rivals, and these storms aren't Hollywood digital wizardry but the real thing.

Cowboys special teams coach Joe DeCamillis was among 12 people injured when 64 mph winds — just shy of tornado strength — ripped through the roof of the team’s indoor practice facility during a rookie minicamp Saturday.