"Then the air was filled with 10,000 things. Boards, poles, cans, garments, stoves, whole sides of the little frame houses, in some cases the houses themselves, were picked up and smashed to earth.

March 18, 1925, began like any other Wednesday in the Heartland. It didn’t stay normal for long; when the day was over, it ...

Even by Plains standards, this was an unusually large, violent tornado outbreak so early in spring. One Kansas tornado was ...

It may be hard to believe that with an average of 1,200 tornadoes each year in the United States, we haven’t seen an EF5-rated twister in more than 11 years. But that doesn’t mean the number ...