That’s well above second-ranked Hale County, north of Lubbock, which had 133 ... either F0/EF0 or F1/EF1. Violent tornadoes — those rated F4/EF4 and F5/EF5 — are much rarer.

curid=131947506. Image via Wikipedia On May 11, 1970, Lubbock, Texas, faced the wrath of a devastating tornado that reached F5 intensity. The tornado flattened miles of urban infrastructure, destroyed ...

Tornadoes in the U.S. typically increase sharply in spring. Unfortunately, a few of those can be violent tornadoes, particularly in the South. On March 3, 1966, 59 years ago today, an F5 tornado ...

Powerful winds and blowing dust on Friday have triggered thousands of power outages and contributed to poor driving ...

A huge storm system crossing the U.S. threatens to unleash tornadoes Friday in the Mississippi Valley, blizzards in the ...

Mere hours after Texas state health officials confirmed a total of 48 measles cases in West Texas in recent weeks, Lubbock health authorities confirmed the first case involving a Lubbock County ...

Researches found little evidence that tornadoes were getting weaker. Instead, it appears that a subjective tornado grading ...

"It’s likely that several of these tornadoes would have been rated F5 using the legacy Fujita scale." Thus, the lack of EF5-rated tornadoes in the past decade is "less due to a weakening of ...

T​ornadoes in the U.S. typically increase sharply in spring.​ Unfortunately, a few of those can be violent tornadoes, ...