Through all the heavy rain, hail and damaging winds left behind came some lovely photos of the clouds and rainbows after the ...

The National Weather Service office in Lincoln has confirmed at least 22 tornadoes from last Friday. The National Weather ...

A local Illinois news station has switched its “Code Red” weather alerts to something that sounds less alarming after its own weatherman criticized the language as misleading. While live on air last ...

During the weather segment on Wednesday morning, Joe Crain, a veteran meteorologist with Springfield’s ABC-affiliated WICS-TV (News Channel 20), offered unexpected on-air criticism of his station’s ...

A local Illinois weatherman criticized his own news station’s “Code Red” weather alerts, saying the alert “doesn’t recognize that not all storms are created equal” and that the alerts are forced upon ...

A veteran television meteorologist who criticized his own station's Code Red weather alerts for being a "corporate initiative" in a broadcast Wednesday has not been seen on-air since airing his ...

WICS-TV's general manager said Monday the Springfield television station will change the phrase it uses to label early severe weather alerts. Gone is "Code Red," words that drew the ire of some ...

Joe Crain, a longtime meteorologist on WICS-TV in Springfield, gave on-air criticism Wednesday of the station’s “Code Red” weather warning system, saying it is a “corporate initiative” that “doesn’t ...