11 Items Tagged

Tornadoes

The Big Well

This Kansas Town Advertised the World’s Largest Well. It Wasn’t.

From its hand-dug well to its fully sustainable power grid, Greensburg’s defining characteristic has been its own constant reinvention.

The Podcast Team June 12, 2025

Sepp Kipfstuhl of the East Greenland Ice-Core Project examines a sample taken from where fast-moving and slow-moving ice meet in the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Wonder Is Everywhere: The New Tornado Alley, the Coolest Library in the World, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.

April White June 23, 2023

A monster supercell in Sublette, Kansas.

Meet the Storm-Chasing Photographer Who Can Also Shoot Your Wedding

In both cases, "You’re trying to find the best spot to shoot a moment in time that no one is ever going to see again.”

Luna Shyr July 21, 2021

Broke Leg Falls

Wellington, Kentucky

Broke Leg Falls

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

Mayfly 'Tornadoes' Briefly Took Over Saskatchewan

They reproduced and then died.

Erik Shilling July 24, 2017

Despite Tornado, Dad Mows Lawn

The grass was too long, and Thenius Wessels wasn't going to let a little bad weather stop him from making it shorter.

Cara Giaimo June 5, 2017

Bright streaks radiate from the Sante Fe Crater on Mars.

These Bright Streaks Are Evidence of Massive Tornadoes on Mars

Everything's bigger on the red planet.

Kelsey Kennedy May 12, 2017

A 75-Year-Old Woman Used Her Bathtub to Survive a Texas Tornado

Things got dramatic.

Erik Shilling January 27, 2017

Watch a Smoke Tornado Swirl in a Soap Bubble

Good, clean, non-destructive fun!

David Doochin June 1, 2016

Found: A Rare, Backwards Tornado That Spun the Wrong Way

Very few tornados rotate clockwise.

Sarah Laskow May 13, 2016

Watch This Tiny Town Get Sucked Into a Tornado Vortex

Engineers at Iowa State University build mini-cities and bombard them with simulated tornadoes.

Lauren Young May 4, 2016