The 2026 tornado season started early with confirmed twisters in Oklahoma on Jan. 8. As the frequency of tornadoes grows, it’s more important than ever to be prepared with a tornado shelter plan, a fortified house and a home insurance policy.

Preliminary data from NOAA's Storm Prediction Center shows 2025 was the second consecutive year with above-historical-average tornado reports.

The weather in 2025 gave us more than 6 inches of snow, a tornado-ravaged spring, three flood rescues and even a lightning-strike survivor before calming down much of

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The severe weather that occurred on Oct. 26 did produce a few tornadoes warnings. One of them has been rated an EF-1 tornado in Elberta, Alabama. We also had flash flood warnings across Baldwin County.

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Meteorologists said this week that a deadly tornado ...

Two tornadoes touched down in Macon County as severe weather battered Central Illinois Sunday afternoon. Tammy Schneider, the Macon County EMA Director said a