Barely a month after a tornado killed 19 people and wrought havoc in London, the Kentucky basketball program visited to bring ...

Kentucky Senate leaders said they are prepared to convene for a special session whenever Governor Andy Beshear requests ...

The Air-Evac Lifeteam 179 crew's hangar was left a mess of mangled metal when it was hit by an EF4 tornado at the ...

Tornado Alley is the area of the U.S. where tornadoes are most frequent, including parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and even Iowa and South Dakota. Kentucky has lost at least ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued an update on the combined recovery information for the three Presidential Major Disaster Declarations issued this year following ...

Bill Estep is retiring from the Lexington Herald-Leader after 40 years of covering Kentucky’s most important stories from ...

Kentucky's recent years of tornadoes have brought tragedy, but despite decades of data, the state's risk of deadly events is still ill-defined.

At least one person is dead and seven others injured after an unexpected tornado struck a rural Kentucky county early Friday morning as a line of severe storms moved eastward across the state.

A 2024 study on the National Land Cover Database (which is based on Landsat observations) has found that tornado damage to forests in the southeastern U.S. is on the rise, despite a slight decrease in ...

On May 16, a super-cell storm produced a killer EF-4 tornado packing maximum 170 mph winds that roared across southern Kentucky in a path of destruction and death. Here’s what unfolded.

One person is dead and several were injured after a tornado hit rural Washington County, Kentucky early Friday morning. The National Weather Service confirmed the tornado was at least an EF-2 with ...

Tornado watches means the weather conditions are favorable for severe storms that are capable of producing tornadoes.