Sixty years ago, a tornado tore through South Jackson, leaving one of the state's deadliest disasters. It was one only two F5 ...

On March 3, 1966, an F5 tornado carved a 202-mile path across central and eastern Mississippi into western Alabama, killing 58 people. The Candlestick Park tornado obliterated a Jackson shopping ...

Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Hugh W. Shankle and Joe A. Patterson Collections via NWS-Jackson, Mississippi Your mind may still be stuck in the realm of winter's cold and snowstorms.

MIKE MOSS SAYS: Loutricia, Reliable (and reasonably accessible) records on tornado observances in the Fayetteville area reach back to about 1950, so I can't address what may have occurred before then.

Tornadoes are among the most dangerous natural calamities on Earth. These natural disasters hold the power of erasing cities, towns and villages off the map within a matter of a few minutes. And the ...

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 ...