Over 3.8 million people in the Great Plains are under threat of high or moderate threat of tornadoes on Monday, as another large storm system threatens the storm-battered region over Monday ...

And none compares to the Great Plains of the United States — AKA, tornado alley. Largely thanks to this: The Gulf of Mexico. Paul Markowski: So the Gulf of Mexico is actually the warmest body of ...

Tornado heaven My mind had good reason to set my nightmare there. The Great Plains of the U.S. gets more tornadoes—and more violent tornadoes—than anywhere else on Earth. Movies from The ...

It is common for large tornadoes in the Great Plains to have several smaller whirls called suction vortices or sub vortices within them. The Storm Prediction Center website notes, “Subvortices ...

In 2013, Meola traveled to America’s Tornado Alley to become what many ... in taking people on storm chases across the Great Plains. The drivers on these tours often cover over 400 miles a ...

Tornadoes in unlikely places While tornadoes have historically been more common in the Great Plains, scientists are observing a shift in patterns, with tornado activity expanding into the ...

Record single-storm totals from across the Great Plains region suggest that snowfalls of up to four feet are possible, although rare. The Halloween blizzard of 1991 dropped 36 inches on Duluth.