Texas sees an average of 135 tornadoes each year, the most of any U.S. state. Here’s a look at the worst ones in the Lone Star State’s history.

They happened in different years, but residents in two major Texas cities were digging out in disbelief on this date from two of the deadliest and intense tornadoes in state history.

Damage: $2,800,000,000 (adjusted for inflation: $3,788,061,000) The F5 tornado that chewed through Joplin, Missouri, in 2011 remains the costliest twister in U.S. history. The tornado, which ...

Seventy years before the first public tornado warning and over a century prior to a nationwide Doppler radar network, the most violent of tornadoes tore through an Iowa town.

Surprisingly, there haven't been that many more F5, EF5, and IF5 tornadoes worldwide. There have only been 67 tornadoes classified in these categories in history, meaning that there are only eight ...

The Fujita Scale is a rating system from F0 to F5 based on wind speed and damage done to structures and trees. The Niles-Wheatland tornado was designated an F5 tornado.

They happened in different years, but residents in two major Texas cities were digging out in disbelief on this date from two of the deadliest and intense tornadoes in state history.