From popcorn storms to supercells, here's how thunderstorms form, turn severe and why some produce hail, damaging winds or ...

How do harmless puffy white clouds grow into towering, potentially dangerous cumulonimbus thunderstorms? On their surface, clouds appear to be an odd contradiction of nature — light enough to float on ...

The amount of moisture in soil – and the way this moisture is distributed – combined with wind patterns in the lowest few kilometres of the atmosphere can influence where thunderstorms begin and how ...

Severe weather season in Texas has arrived and Central Texas is bracing for a couple of stormy days on the horizon this week. Knowing how thunderstorms develop and identifying cloud formations can ...

Historically, the severe weather that impacts Nebraska and Iowa the most is hail and windstorms. For Severe Weather Awareness ...

Thunderstorms are known to form preferentially on warm, humid days with unstable air. But predicting where exactly a thunderstorm will develop has so far remained extremely difficult. Heavy rainfall ...

“Everything is bigger in Texas,” and thunderstorms in the state are no exception. North, South-Central and East Texas typically experience 30 to 50 thunderstorm days annually in each region. Southeast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tornado touches down north of Jarrell in Williamson County along Interstate 35 on May 27, 1997. A tornado is a violently ...