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 ...

MOLINE, Ill. — On Monday, the National Weather Service issued measurements for the tornado that went through Winterset, Iowa, as an EF-4, and the two tornadoes in the Quad Cities as an EF-0 and EF-1.

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, ...

From the beginning of tornado season in April to its end in August, EF rankings for one tornado after another might blow by and leave your head spinning. However, the tragic death of a toddler and the ...

National Preparedness Month is recognized each September to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for disasters and emergencies that could happen at any time. This year, the campaign will ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Fifty years ago this week a devastating tornado in Lubbock, Texas led to the creation of a tornado rating system. The tornado killed 26, injured over 1,500 and caused $250 ...

The National Weather Service uses the Enhanced Fujita Scale, or EF-Scale, to assign tornado ratings based on estimated wind speeds and related damage.The Enhanced Fujita Scale, which replaced the ...

ST. LOUIS — An active severe weather season has culminated most recently with EF3 tornado damage in St. Louis on Friday. The track was nearly 23 miles long, the tornado was nearly one mile wide and ...

Hundreds of homes vanished beneath the black cloud that descended on May 20, 2013. The violent tornado that forever scarred Moore, Oklahoma, took less than ten minutes to carve from one side of town ...

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It's tornado season in Colorado. After a tornado has touched down and caused damage, it's up to the National Weather Service to determine its intensity. Meteorologists do this using a scale called the ...