Jesse Ferrell

Pennsylvania, State College

Senior Weather Editor and Meteorologist at AccuWeather

Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather Meteorologist & Digital producer. Opinions my own. WeatherMatrix, Since 1996: "The Weather is Always Interesting."

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Tornado kills 1 person in Kentucky early Friday morning

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jesse Ferrell

A home was destroyed by a likely tornado, with a toilet left upside down on the rubble, in Mackville, Kentucky on May 30, 2025. (Washington County Sheriff's Office)A tornado destroyed several structures near Mackville, Kentucky, 50 miles southeast of Louisville, Friday morning. The National Weather Service (NWS) in Louisville, Kentucky, found damage consistent with an EF1 tornado. A radar image around the time that the tornado hit near Mackville at 7:00 a.m. EDT.
40 years ago: Pennsylvania's deadliest tornado outbreak, only F5 twister

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jesse Ferrell

AccuWeather.comFriday, May 31, 1985, was a spring day like any other. Trees and flowers were in full bloom, Memorial Day weekend was in the rearview mirror, and most residents of Pennsylvania, Ohio and southern Ontario were looking forward to the weekend. By the end of the day, however, 44 tornadoes had ripped through the region, killing 89 people.
40 years ago: Pennsylvania's deadliest tornado outbreak, only F5 twister

1 week ago | aol.com | Jesse Ferrell

Friday, May 31, 1985, was a spring day like any other. Trees and flowers were in full bloom, Memorial Day weekend was in the rearview mirror, and most residents of Pennsylvania, Ohio and southern Ontario were looking forward to the weekend. By the end of the day, however, 44 tornadoes had ripped through the region, killing 89 people.
Tornado kills 1 person in Kentucky early Friday morning

1 week ago | aol.com | Jesse Ferrell

A tornado destroyed several structures near Mackville, Kentucky, 50 miles southeast of Louisville, Friday morning. The National Weather Service (NWS) in Louisville, Kentucky, found damage consistent with an EF1 tornado. The Washington County Sheriff's office said on Facebook that one person died from the storm and 20 others were injured. A 3-year-old was initially missing after the storm but was quickly found, WDRB reported.
1 dead in Texas thunderstorms that unleashed flooding and hail in Austin

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jesse Ferrell

A severe thunderstorm that crossed through the northeastern suburbs of Austin, Texas, Wednesday night, dropped hail and caused massive flooding that resulted in several water rescues. One person was swept away by the floodwaters and reported dead. Floodwaters inundated streets as leaves and hail clogged drainage systems. Water rose rapidly after more than 3 inches of heavy rain, causing one river gauge to rise from 3 to 13 feet in 30 minutes.
Massive Saharan dust clouds to approach Florida, Gulf

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jesse Ferrell

AccuWeather.comIt's Saharan dust season in the Atlantic, when massive clouds of dust from Africa's Sahara Desert are carried westward by wind, sometimes reaching all the way to the United States. Where is the dust now? Satellite photos showed thick dust extending off the coast of Africa on Wednesday morning, with a second swath of lighter dust over the Caribbean. AccuWeather.comWhen will the dust hit the United States?
Gustnado damages RVs in Louisiana town struck by 2 hurricanes in 2020

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jesse Ferrell

RVs were flipped, shredded and tossed like toys after a gustnado hit Cameron, Louisiana, early Tuesday morning. The rare weather event followed a severe thunderstorm overnight. Video taken on Tuesday showed RVs flipped over, with at least one destroyed. The National Weather Service confirmed that a gustnado with 80-mph winds touched down around 4 a.m. CDT and caused the damage. The local fire department rescued one person, but no fatalities were reported.
'Baseball cap-sized hail:" Near-record hailstones measured in Texas

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jesse Ferrell

Massive hailstones, one measured at nearly 6 inches in diameter, pummeled Texas over the holiday weekend, with storm chasers helping scientists on a mission to research big hail. AccuWeather.comOn Sunday in Afton, about 70 miles east of Lubbock, storm chaser Colt Forney found a hailstone that may have been more than 6 inches in diameter-about the size of a baseball cap. A hat-sized hailstone picked up by storm chaser Colt Forney in Afton, Texas on May 25, 2025.
Trees sense solar eclipses before they happen

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jesse Ferrell

A spruce tree with wires attached. to measure electrical activity. (Zenith Audiovisual Arts)When the sky suddenly darkens during a solar eclipse, animals often change their behavior. New research shows that trees respond too - and they may even sense the eclipse coming.
More than 900 tornadoes make this season worst since 2011

2 weeks ago | upi.com | Jesse Ferrell

The 2025 tornado season in the United States is the most active in over a decade, with more preliminary tornado reports by May 20 than in any year since 2011. Fueled by a series of major outbreaks this spring, four states have emerged as the hardest hit so far this year. Over 900 tornadoes in 2025, 280 above normalAs of May 20, the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has logged 922 preliminary filtered tornado reports nationwide- 281 more than the historical average of 641.