We explained this in a previous Ask the Meteorologist. Ironically enough, that storm happened in Johnston County too. Downbursts/microbursts can be just as (if not more) damaging as a tornado, so that’s not downplaying the severity of the storm that blew through Saturday night.

ST. LOUIS — Three of the seven schools damaged by the May 16 tornado could reopen by the spring semester — without dozens of students who left during the relocation process. The cease-and-desist letter asks the district to remove the video from an app accessible to students at North Kirkwood Middle School.

A powerful tornado hit Brazil's southern state of Parana, killing six people and injuring more than 400 others Friday night, state officials said Saturday.

A G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm is often the result of Earth plunging into a fast stream of the solar wind, or when a small, diffuse CME sweeps past, or when a larger, denser coronal mass ejection scores a 'glancing blow' on Earth's geomagnetic field.

Severe weather in Nashville triggered a ground stop at Nashville International Airport around 4:33 p.m. Nov. 7, the airport announced on its X account. "Travelers should check their flight status with their airlines," the airport said in the post. Middle Tennessee's tornado watch was issued around 3:37 p.m. Nov. 7.

On the night of Nov. 10, 1915, multiple tornadoes touched down, two of which were estimated to be F4s, devastating some Kansas communities.

For the latest on this week's freeze warning, please click here. Earlier weather predictions for Mississippi called for storms and possible tornadoes in much of the state on Friday and freezing temperatures on Tuesday morning. While that still holds true ...

A tornado watch has been issued for much of Middle Tennessee until 10 p.m. Nov. 7 as a line of strong storms begins to push into the area from the west, the National Weather Service Nashville reports.