The process of tornado formation begins with colliding air masses that create instability in the atmosphere, producing ...

Tornadoes are among nature's fiercest furies. Despite the destruction they can cause, the mechanism that results in tornadoes ...

Tornadoes form as a result of something called wind shear ... so people can take the proper action. In fact, we try to do this ahead of time with a product called a tornado watch.

Meteorologists have gotten a lot better at forecasting the conditions that make tornadoes more likely. But predicting exactly which thunderstorms will produce a tornado and when is harder, and that’s ...

to increase the lead time for tornado warnings. There are a lot of other areas of research. For example, to better understand how storms form, I do a lot of idealized computer modeling.