A Feb. 21-22, 1971 outbreak claimed 121 lives from Texas to North Carolina, the deadliest February rash of tornadoes in ...

Tornado Speed One of the most striking attributes of tornadoes is their incredible speed. The wind speeds within a tornado ...

Insurance companies regularly raise their rates, often with no prior insurance claim or other unforeseen event to warrant the ...

The Allen Media Group's new deal with The Weather Channel is jeopardizing the jobs of dozens of local meteorologists ...

Illinois lawmakers established the Warehouse Safety Standards Task Force in January 2023 to study warehouse safety in response to the Edwardsville tornado, and it issued its final report last month.

Here is how Peoria-area basketball teams rank in the the sixth regular-season AP top 10 poll for Class 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A in ...

Bigfoot, chupacabra, Area 51—who doesn’t love a good urban legend? As fun as they are to entertain, though, most of them lack any credible proof. Most, however, doesn’t mean all. Some legends, like ...

The other worst tornado years on record were the 1,692 ... an associate professor of meteorology and severe weather at Northern Illinois University. "There was never a significant lull in activity." ...