The Enhanced Fujita Scale: A Tornado Rating System
The Enhanced Fujita Scale provides an estimated range of a tornado's wind speeds, based on the tornado's damage.
Arkansas homes devastated by deadly tornados that tore across South were also hit by ...
The batch of tornados that cut across the Southwest over the weekend destroyed homes in an Arkansas community that also faced ...
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Explaining the Enhanced Fujita scale for tornadoes
One question you may ask yourself is how tornadoes are measured? It's with the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale which is gives a ...
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New study reveals potential cause of a ‘drought’ in violent EF5 tornadoes
A quirky aspect of the way we measure twisters helps explain why there hasn't been a top-tier-rated tornado in 12 years.
The worst type of tornado hasn't hit the US for over a decade, perplexing experts
Researches found little evidence that tornadoes were getting weaker. Instead, it appears that a subjective tornado grading system is to blame.
Tornado Outbreak Spawns At Least 50 Twisters Across 10 States, Killing 24
A deadly tornado outbreak ripped through the Midwest and South over the weekend, leaving destruction, power outages and ...
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At least 3 tornadoes hit St. Louis area Friday, National Weather Service confirms
The National Weather Service in St. Louis has confirmed three tornadoes hit the St. Louis area during Friday's storms, ...
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Tornadoes, severe storms likely in Mississippi later this week. Here's when and where
In terms of strength of tornadoes, we're looking at some brief spin-up tornadoes, but an EF2 can't be ruled out for Friday ...
At least 4 tornadoes touched down in Chicago area during severe weather outbreak
The National Weather Service has confirmed at least four tornado touchdowns occurred in the Chicago area during a severe weather outbreak Friday.