tornadoes

It's been 11 years now, but it still seems like yesterday. It was the afternoon of May 22, 2011 when a monster EF5 tornado cut a tragic swath through Joplin, Missouri and there are many that will never forget that day.

It's been a stormy day in the Midwest and for some areas tornadic. New video shows a large dangerous tornado that just roared through Des Moines, Iowa.

Tornadoes are a real possibility Friday night. Most of the tri-state is under a level 3 ENHANCED risk. Union County, Kentucky and points west are under a MODERATE risk.

Western Kentucky and southern Indiana are under a level three ENHANCED risk for severe weather, including the potential for tornadoes, late Friday night.

The tornado that tore through Stanley in rural Daviess County on Saturday left quite a path of destruction behind. Chris Conley and Mean Motion Media has captured the storm's aftermath.

It's been one wild weather season here in the Tri-State with every imaginable scenario possible, except for the strongest type of tornado, an EF-5. Leigh Orf, a scientist with Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison re-created an EF-5 tornado that touched down during an outbreak in Oklahoma in 2011. This is amazing.

Growing up, I just thought tornadoes were only supposed to happen in the spring. After all, the deadly Brandenburg tornado of 1974 was a spring storm, and that is THE reference point storm for the 1970s.