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The severe threat shifts east into the Midwest on Memorial Day Monday — damaging winds, large hail, and a few tornadoes aiming at holiday crowds

Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, Indianapolis, and dozens of smaller communities across the central Midwest are staring down a corridor of severe thunderstorms on Memorial Day Monday, May 26, 2026,

Tornadoes roll through KC, residents without power after storms

Forecasters with the National Weather Service predicted storms starting as early as 3 p.m. just west of Topeka. Storms are expected to hit the Kansas City metro around 8 p.m. The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center issued a tornado watch for areas in Iowa,

Days of storms ended with more than 2 dozen tornadoes in Iowa

An active severe weather week brought more than 2 dozen tornadoes to Iowa. Here are the National Weather Service's confirmed reports.
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Strong tornadoes and baseball-size hail threaten the Plains through Memorial Day — the Storm Prediction Center flags a multiday outbreak as 27 million hit the road

A potent late-May storm system is taking aim at the central Plains during one of the busiest travel weekends of the year, and federal forecasters are warning that the threat will not be a one-day affair.

What's the Enhanced Fujita scale and does it measure up to powerful Texas tornadoes?

This is the time of year when Texas sees more severe thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes, you might hear more about where a twister ranked on the Enhanced Fujita scale or its EF rating. Among the effects from climate change,