The storm in southeastern Saskatchewan near Estevan produced at least one spotter-confirmed tornado. Multiple chasers in the ...

The scale is named after Tetsuya “Ted” Fujita, an engineer and meteorologist who developed the original version of it in 1971. Here are the Enhanced Fujita Scale ratings used today by the ...

The Enhanced Fujita Scale or EF Scale is the method used to assign a tornado a ‘rating’ based on estimated wind speeds and related damage, according to the NWS. This scale become operational ...

The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado touched down Tuesday at the Truman Sports Complex near Kauffman Stadium and GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. When a tornado hits, it later is assigned ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The strength of a tornado is based on what is called the Enhanced Fujita Scale, a years-old way of classifying how intense a tornado was based on damage and wind speeds ...

The destruction was so severe that it led meteorologists to rethink how tornadoes were measured, ultimately resulting in the creation of the Fujita Scale one year later, which rates tornadoes by ...

The Enhanced Fujita Scale, love it or hate it, is our current system for rating the hundreds of tornadoes that occur each year across the United States. To much chagrin, it rates tornadoes solely ...

The Fujita scale ranged from F0 having max gusts of <73 mph, F1 of 73-112 mph, F2 with 113-157 mph, F3 with 158-206 mph, F4 with 207-260 mph, and finally, F5, indicating speeds of up to 261-318 mph.

MOLINE, Ill. — A new study published by the American Meteorological Society has shed light on a puzzling phenomenon: The United States has not logged an EF5 tornado, the most violent category ...

The National Weather Service has determined that the family of tornadoes that tore through south-central Kansas on Sunday night were all rated EF3s on the Enhanced Fujita scale. Five main ...