LINCOLN — The Nebraska State Board of Education faced its first challenge as a board evenly divided down political lines Thursday, voting more than 50 times to elect its board leadership ...

As looming thunderstorm clouds spit out baseball-sized hail and torrential rain, a narrow whirlwind of air stretches its way ...

Ten of them resulted from the same supercell storm and mesocyclone (a rotating updraft). It is common for large tornadoes in the Great Plains to have several smaller whirls called suction vortices ...