The right mix of hot, humid, rising air can produce some of the most powerful weather phenomena on the planet.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- The hot and steamy days of summer are here, bringing a persistent pattern of high temperatures, high humidity, and scattered thunderstorms to the region. With ...

Jet streams play a key role in how tornadoes are formed. When it comes to tornadoes, you’ve seen them, and you’ve seen what they can do. But do you really know how a tornado forms into that monstrous ...

As a deadly heat wave continued to scorch much of the eastern half of the country, a round of thunderstorms known as a "ring of fire" was cropping up along some of the edges of the heat dome, ...