A packed stadium. The roar of the crowd. Then – lightning. In recent years, extreme weather has struck large public gatherings with little warning, turning moments of celebration into chaos. In one ...

The National Lightning Detection Network counted all of the lightning flashes and strikes across our Michigan sky last Thursday and Friday. You won’t believe how many lightning events we had in just ...

Firefighting routinely involves high-risk situations, and a crew from the Cy-Fair Fire Department's Station 11 in Houston faced two severe weather-related threats on Monday. After responding to a ...

'Wild Lightning Show' Over Chicago as Tornado Warning Issued Lightning flashed over Chicago, Illinois, as the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a tornado warning for the area on Sunday, July 14.

A Spaulding tornado siren is repaired after receiving damage from a lightning strike, which stopped it from sounding prior to a deadly EF1 tornado that hit the town Saturday, Hughes County leaders say ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Storms with lightning and hail and at least one observed tornado were moving through the upper Midwest on Monday with the potential for strong tornadoes. The National Weather ...

Casey Letkewicz is a doctoral student in meteorology at N.C. State University in Raleigh. She is one of a half-dozen students and faculty from N.C. State participating in VORTEX2, a research project ...

Florida’s Severe Weather Awareness Week is here, and there are several things you need to know to stay safe. A new topic is featured daily about some of the hazards that Floridians face each year, ...