tornado

A potent weather system is spinning away this morning. Thunder and downpours were the big features overnight, but in it’s wake, the wind will start to kick up. It’s not a typical late July day with the dew points falling and the cooler air rushing in (after a vigorous weather system), but this July has been anything but normal....

Showers moved across southern New England Thursday evening and some strong storms moved in overnight. All this instability is due to a warm front approaching the region. Non-severe storms have and will continue to push through southern New England, but at this time, we’re seeing the window narrow for severe storms. The threat will be as early as 10...

The clean up is continuing today after the National Weather Service said an EF-0 tornado touched down in Somers last night. According to the National Weather Service, the tornado hit between 6:11 p.m. and 6:18 p.m. The length of its path was 1.9 miles and it touched down on Colonia Drive then headed north-northeast up to the area of Hickory…

The National Weather Service said an EF-0 tornado touched down in Somers Sunday evening. The tornado path was approximately 1.9 miles long and occurred from 6:11 to 6:18 p.m., officials with the NWS said. The NWS said peak winds reached 80 mph, which is at the high range for an EF-0 tornado. The National Weather Service investigated damage in town…

Overnight: Mostly cloudy with showers and a few downpours. Very humid – patchy dense fog, low in the 60s to low 70s. Monday: Mostly cloudy with showers, a bit less humid, high in the 70s.
Tuesday: Sunny start, afternoon clouds, slight chance late day shower or storm. High in the 80s.

The strong wind and intense rain from tropical storm Elsa is slamming Massachusetts, causing power outages and flash flood warnings.

After at least three tornado warnings were issued in Maine over the past several days, scientists with the National Weather Service are trying to figure out if any tornadoes actually touched down. The NWS’ Caribou office has preliminarily determined that a storm that destroyed barns, took down trees and damaged roofs in Limestone and Castle Hill in northern Aroostook County…

Three storms prompted tornado warnings in Maine in the last several days, leaving behind damage. But did a tornado ever strike?

When a tornado touched down in Colorado this month, Raya Maday was blown away by what she saw — not just the tornado, but also her boyfriend, Tom Bedard, touching down on one knee.

Mother Nature took a Kansas couple’s relationship for a spin when the storm chasers tracked down a tornado — then got engaged.

A tornado touched down in Weld County near Denver on Monday, causing structural damage.

Tuesday marked 10 years after a deadly tornado ripped through parts of western and central Massachusetts, but people in the area have not forgotten. “You could hear it like a railroad train coming through there,” said 91-year-old Fisk Bacon of Monson. Bacon says he remembers June 1, 2011, like it was yesterday. “We saw it coming so we went down…

In tonight’s Daily Debrief, the man arrested in a Worcester gas station attack faces a judge, the 10th anniversary of a devastating tornado that hit parts of Massachusetts is marked and Maine beaches are adopting a familiar system to warn swimmers about sharks.

Thunderstorms that threatened powerful winds and 1-inch hail rushed from Connecticut through Maine Wednesday afternoon and evening after a hot day in England. The National Weather Service issued a slate of watches and warnings for the severe weather, citing thunderstorms that could have generated locally damaging wind gusts in excess of 70 mph and/or 1-inch hailstones. Individual cells were moving…

Summer in New England is frequently hot, humid and hazy, but there are often threats of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in the warmer months. The TEN looks at a few notable storms of summers past and breaks down what alerts from the National Weather Service mean.

The brunt of nature’s fury was taken once again by Lake Charles, in a coastal zone still recovering from back-to-back hurricanes last fall and a deep freeze in February. The National Weather Service said in a Facebook post that south Lake Charles got 12 to 15 inches of rain in just 12 hours.

Back-to-back tornadoes have killed 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured

Forecasters say much of the South could see more severe weather Tuesday. Tornadoes struck parts of the region Sunday night and Monday, causing heavy damage in Mississippi and flipping trucks on a Texas interstate. The national Storm Prediction Center says the worst weather could hit parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. That zone is home to more than...

One of the victims died when a falling tree brought power lines onto his vehicle.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado did in fact touch down in Kent during Wednesday’s storm at approximately 2:49 p.m. The tornado started at Bulls Bridge in Litchfield County and ended in South Kent, the NWS said. The tornado was an EF-0, reaching estimated peak wind gusts of 85 mph. The damage was sporadic along the...