Tornadoes are vertical funnels of rapidly spinning air. Their winds may top 250 miles an hour and can clear a pathway a mile wide and 50 miles long. Twisters are born in thunderstorms and are often ...
Last year, tornadoes killed 68 people. The deadliest single storm hit Somerset–London, Kentucky on May 16, killing 19. A separate outbreak across Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, ...