Long before a tornado ever hits the ground, meteorologists work hard to give the people in its path a heads-up. Those extra minutes or even an hour to prepare can be, quite literally, lifesaving. That ...

Myth: Lightning never strikes ... after photo gallery. Myth: Tornadoes don't pass through mountains or lakes Belles said mountains can tear up tornadoes or storm clouds but will not stop them.

Last year's storm season saw this mesocyclone and ... while flooding killed 70 Americans, and lightning, tornadoes and high winds during thunderstorms claimed 171 lives that year.

Belles said lightning does not shy away from striking ... Belles said mountains can tear up tornadoes or storm clouds but will not stop them. "Especially as we go into the summer, you'll often ...

After a stretch of summer-like weather, Western Washington is bracing for more severe conditions that could include everything from thunder, hail, lightning ... tornado south of Tacoma when the ...

Sunshine one day and falling chunks of ice, lightning and even a tornado the next ... thunderstorms on Wednesday evening as a strong storm system approaches western Washington.

You won’t believe how many lightning events we had in just that one storm system. Vaisala is the company that owns the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN). Their instrumentation counts ...

“The crouch”—where you sit in a crouched squatting position with your hands over your head—is not the best course of action during a thunder and lightning storm. “If you’re caught ...

Belles said lightning does not ... after photo gallery. Myth: Tornadoes don't pass through mountains or lakes Belles said mountains can tear up tornadoes or storm clouds but will not stop them.

a tornado warning. Well, by definition, all thunderstorms produce lightning, but we don’t use that as a precursor for a warning,” he says. “If we did, we’d be issuing warnings for every ...