Morning Overview on MSN

2026 has already spun up more than 500 tornadoes, including Minnesota’s first EF5 on record

The 2026 tornado season has produced a staggering volume of severe weather across the central United States, with preliminary federal storm reports already exceeding 500 individual tornado entries ...
Morning Overview on MSN

The 2026 tornado season has killed 78 people and brought Minnesota’s first EF5

Seventy-eight people have died in tornadoes across the United States so far in 2026, a toll that includes fatalities from a ...
Yahoo

The Joplin Tornado: What Our Meteorologists Remember Most 15 Years Later

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friday is the 15-year anniversary of the Joplin tornado, which tore a six-mile-long and up to a mile-wide path of devastation ...
9NEWS

What the tornado EF scale means

Measuring tornado winds at the ground level is notoriously difficult. Instead, meteorologists look at the damage, using on or more of 28 key indicators to determine how strong the tornado likely was ...
AOL

Former police chief reflects on Joplin’s devastating EF5 tornado 15 years later

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Friday marks 15 years since a deadly EF5 tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri. Former Joplin Police Chief Lane Roberts and now a Missouri state representative recalls that ...