Forget twisters. These storm chasers are after a sneakier hazard: hail. A team of about 70 researchers, armed with high-tech sensors and specially outfitted vehicles, set out across the nation this ...

Dewey Kahawai was asleep when he heard a knock on his bedroom window. "I sprang out of bed and thought, 'Oh my gosh, someone's trying to get into my house,'" he said. That was soon followed by ...

MORTON, Texas — Even when Mother Nature turns nasty, the weather extremes carry a sense of awesome beauty. About 60 scientists this spring and early summer went straight into hailstorms to better ...

Dozens of researchers and students are chasing thunderstorms across the country this summer to collect data for what experts say is the largest hail study conducted in the United States in more than ...