The 2025 tornado season in the United States is the most active in over a decade, with more preliminary tornado reports by May 20 than in any year since 2011.

T ornadic storms and tennis ball sized-hail kicked off what may be a wild weekend of weather Friday evening. Multiple tornadoes slammed Logan and Washington counties as severe sto

Residents inspect their home after a tornado completely tore off the back wall of a two-story house in St. Louis, on May 16, 2025. “I have never seen anything like this,” said Jerikah McCloud, who looks out the destroyed second floor of her family home in the Academy neighborhood of St. Louis on May 17, 2025.

The commissioner of the St. Louis City Emergency Management Agency, Sarah Russell, has been placed on paid administrative leave after failing to sound the warning siren during the tornadoes last Friday that killed five people.

Storm surveys are underway following a night of severe weather across North Texas. As of Monday afternoon, at least one tornado has been confirmed near the City of Gordon, located about 66 miles west of Fort Worth. Gordon ISD canceled classes for the week due to extensive damage on campus from the storms.

President Donald Trump approved a major disaster declaration for severe flooding and tornadoes that hit the state in April, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Friday.

President Donald Trump has approved Gov. Andy Beshear’s request for federal disaster relief in six Kentucky counties hit hard by devastating storms and tornadoes last weekend.

The tornadoes that struck the Kansas towns of Plevna and Grinnell on Sunday were EF3s, the National Weather Service says. No injuries or deaths were reported. Kansas saw 19 tornadoes Sunday: 2 EF0, 1 EF1, 9 EF2 and 7 EF3, according to a weather service tornado outbreak report.

The state is seeing, on average, more tornadoes in the last two years but meteorologists aren't settled on if that has to do with a warming climate.

Multiple tornadoes and intense storms hit the eastern half of the United States on Tuesday as a relentless severe weather pattern that left 28 people dead in recent days began to wind down.