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The city of Norman was prepared to build an automatic flood warning system this year, the same kind of early warning system ...
Scientists say a new epicenter is forming for the deadliest storm zone in the U.S. Here’s where people are now most at risk ...
The Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy is raising concerns over potential federal cuts to emergency alert systems under ...
A sweeping restructuring of FEMA, the federal government’s main disaster agency, could be on tap when Congress returns from ...
There’s something electrifying and a little bit terrifying about tornadoes. Imagine a swirling column of wind powerful enough ...
Oklahoma’s big weather stories this spring overwhelmingly involved tornadoes and heavy rains — and June was no exception.
A sweeping restructuring of FEMA, the federal government’s main disaster agency, could be on tap when Congress returns from ...
This year marks a century since since a powerful tornado ripped through three states, leaving a long trail of destruction in ...
In Norman, scientists are working to significantly speed up tornado warnings while finding new paths to understanding deadly storms and protecting lives and property. A cooperative institute with more ...
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.
It's been 12 years since the historic, deadly Moore, Oklahoma, EF5 tornado. New research has given light as to why no U.S. tornado has achieved an EF5 rating since.