More than 10,000 homes and businesses in Wichita were without power as of 11:50 a.m. Wednesday after storms throughout the day Tuesday hit south-central Kansas, bringing hail up to 3 inches and wind ...

James Bradley shows a piece of hail left from a storm that smashed out his apartment's windows in Plano, Texas. (LM Otero/AP) The number of severe hailstorms in the United States rose significantly ...

Hail is a form of precipitation consisting of solid ice that forms inside thunderstorm updrafts. Hail can damage aircraft, homes and cars, and can be deadly to livestock and people. How does hail form ...

The number of severe hailstorms in the United States rose significantly over the last three years, and the damage from increasingly massive hailstones is pushing up insurance rates in the hardest hit ...