Updated: 12:42 PM In its 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued today, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting an active or extremely active season this year.

Updated: 4:44 PM A line of thunderstorms swept across the Brazos Valley Tuesday night into Wednesday morning producing heavy rain, hail, lightning and strong winds.

Updated: 7:54 AM KBTX Media, The Eagle and WTAW/Candy 95 are collecting funds for people affected by the Moore, Oklahoma tornado.

Updated: 9:37 AM Emergency crews combed the sticks and rubble remains of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday morning less than a day after a massive tornado slammed through the community, flattening homes and demolishing an elementary school. At least 24 people were killed, including at least seven children, and those numbers were expected to climb.

Updated: 9:59 AM As the recovery effort begins in Oklahoma, videos of Monday's tornado that struck the City of Moore are going viral online, showing the devastating power of Mother Nature.

Updated: 9:26 AM More severe weather is in the forecast for parts of the central United States already reeling from powerful tornadoes this week.

Updated: 3:54 AM The severe weather threat is winding down for the Brazos Valley as storms move out of the area.

Posted: 5:29 PM The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., had wind speeds up to 200 mph.

Updated: 7:26 PM Volunteers and rescuers are in the Oklahoma City area looking for survivors after neighborhoods were flattened by a mile-wide tornado.

Posted: 11:54 AM Oklahoma's state medical examiner's office says a second person was killed by a tornado that leveled a central Oklahoma mobile home park.

Posted: 11:27 PM Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano has been shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume is thinning and is no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly nearby.

Posted: 8:57 PM Another round of strong storms moved through North Texas producing a tornado in extreme South Central Young County.

Updated: 1:26 PM The twister that ripped through the town of Granbury on Wednesday night killed at least six people and injured dozens of others. Here are the worst tornadoes ever to hit Texas, based on number of deaths and injuries.

Posted: 11:01 AM Forecasters say portions of the central United States could see severe weather this weekend and Monday.

Updated: 11:01 AM The largest nonprofit group in a North Texas county where a tornado left six people dead will organize local donations for recovery.

Updated: 8:30 PM Forecasters say the tornado that claimed six lives and destroyed dozens of homes in North Texas is believed to have had winds up to 200 mph.

Posted: 12:22 PM May 15, 1836. On this date, Francis Baily, an English astronomer, saw beads of sunlight shining along the edge of the moon’s silhouette during an eclipse of the sun.

Posted: 11:36 AM Congress has approved large parts of NOAA’s spending plan under the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 that will direct $23.7 million (or $25 million before sequestration), a so-called “Sandy supplemental” to the National Weather Service (NWS) for forecasting equipment and supercomputer infrastructure.

Updated: 8:53 PM In a high-flying, perfectly pitched first, an astronaut on the International Space Station is bowing out of orbit with a musical video: his own custom version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."

Updated: 12:01 PM With severe thunderstorm watches and warnings, flash flood warnings, and even a tornado warning, Thursday was a wet day for much of the Brazos Valley.

Updated: 11:23 PM After a record rainfall on Thursday, another upper-level disturbance is moving through Texas and is set to bring the chance for more rain -- some heavy -- to the Brazos Valley on Friday.

Updated: 9:14 AM Despite drenching rains April 28, drought-stricken row crops growers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley may be in for another disastrous year, possibly doubling their $50 million drought losses of 2006, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts in Weslaco.

Updated: 8:15 AM Research is underway in order to create a more accurate and faster warning system for severe weather in the United States. The ultimate goal is to protect life and property, while giving residents, in the path of hazardous weather, time to react.

Updated: 10:53 PM A thunderstorm outbreak isn't something that typically goes unnoticed in a forecast. The big questions to meteorologists is normally "do these storms have the potential to become severe?" That is the question the Storm Prediction Center hopes to answer, hours before storms fire up.

Updated: 11:01 PM Given the right conditions, on the right day, severe weather can take a bright, blue sky and turn it into the platform for violent thunderstorms to form. The only way to get a heads up is to know exactly what is going on in the air above our heads.