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Tornado warnings sent people across New England looking for cover as Tropical Storm Isaias roared across the region’s western edge Tuesday. The storm prompted the National Weather Service to issue tornado warnings in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Vermont. There were reports of wind damage across the area and thousands of people lost power, but no immediate confirmation of...

As Isaias moves northward, Maine is bracing for potential flooding on the coast and a tornado risk inland.

At least two tornadoes raced across southwestern New England Sunday night. One was reported across Litchfield County in Connecticut, two miles south/southwest of Falls Village. Multiple people called 911 to report the tornado at 6:09 p.m. Another tornado was sighted in Berkshire County in Massachusetts at 6:59 p.m. Specifically, the tornado was sighted on South Main Street in Sandisfield, Massachusetts,…

There was a confirmed tornado Saturday north west of Sebago Lake in Maine.

Tropical Storm Fay is moving north along the New Jersey shore and forecast to travel a path near the Hudson River Valley and extreme western New England overnight Friday. Tropical systems often morph as they move this far north, and this time around will be no exception, with the heaviest rain near and west of the storm track and the…

Thousands of people in Massachusetts are without power Saturday after a night of severe weather storms that brought several tornado warnings and a tornado watch that spanned much of New England. By Saturday morning, there were widespread reports of wind damage to homes, downed trees and power lines across the area as people tried to clean up while also contending…

Downed power lines and trees spanned several communities after Friday night’s storm. A Westford resident who has lived in town for over 50 years says he hasn’t seen something like this in decades.

Meteorologist Pete Bouchard offered live coverage of a powerful storm advancing through New England on Friday, May 15, 2020.

We have a First Alert for powerful thunderstorms Friday evening. The region is divided on Friday afternoon. Across southern and western New England it feels like summertime, with high humidity and temperaturse close to 80 degrees. At the same time, in northern New Hampshire and Maine, we have fog and low clouds with temperatures in the 40s and 50s. That’s…

Behind every tornado is a weather phenom known as a supercell. Here’s a quick primer on what supercells are, what they look like and what causes them.

Severe weather is blowing across the South after apparent tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. At least seven people have been killed, including a factory worker whose body was found a quarter mile from where an apparent tornado struck the factory in southern Oklahoma. A Louisiana man was swept away in flood waters after going out to...

Members of a Chattanooga, Tenn., church gathered inside their church destroyed by a tornado to sing.

The coronavirus pandemic is complicating relief work after storms killed more than 30 people across the South

Three days after a photo posted on Facebook showed an Arkansas doctor looking through a glass door to see his 1-year-old son crawl for the first time, the family’s home was destroyed by a tornado

Six people were injured Saturday when a massive tornado ripped through Jonesboro, Arkansas. The twister literally lifted a train off its tracks and left a shopping mall shredded and filled with debris.

Officials in Arkansas say a tornado ripped through the northeast part of the state and hurt six people in the college town of Jonesboro. Local media coverage showed buildings missing walls and with roofs ripped away Saturday.

The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado touched down in Mississippi near the Alabama line overnight, causing damage to some structures and minor injuries.

Sheryl Crow, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, Dan Auerbach and more Nashville artists will hold a benefit concert to raise money for people impacted by a recent deadly tornado