Instead, three specific hazards determine whether a storm meets the criteria: tornadoes, damaging winds, and hail. Each of ...

How do harmless puffy white clouds grow into towering, potentially dangerous cumulonimbus thunderstorms? On their surface, clouds appear to be an odd contradiction of nature — light enough to float on ...

Tornadoes are among the most powerful and unpredictable storms on Earth. They usually form from large thunderstorms when the ...

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — How does hail form? NBC Meteorologist Marcelo Rivera Gonzalez explains what needs to ...

As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, there are over 40,000 thunderstorms forming every day across the globe. That’s nearly 1,700 per hour. For an entire year, it’s estimated that our planet will ...

They're much more common than tornadoes. Here's why severe thunderstorms are dangerous and why you should take action when a ...

Thunderstorms are known to form preferentially on warm, humid days with unstable air. But predicting where exactly a thunderstorm will develop has so far remained extremely difficult. Heavy rainfall ...

“Everything is bigger in Texas,” and thunderstorms in the state are no exception. North, South-Central and East Texas typically experience 30 to 50 thunderstorm days annually in each region. Southeast ...