Each tornado also gets a description—as little ... Bob Henson is a meteorologist and writer at weather.com, where he co-produces the Category 6 news site at Weather Underground.

All of these tornadoes just caused tree damage in the areas where they were on the ground. Hurricane Helene made landfall Thursday evening in Florida as a Category 4 with winds as strong as 140 mph.

However, there were two areas of more intense damage consistent with a low-end EF-2 category tornado, and max wind speeds of 112 mph. Damage at both locations consisted of well-built metal farm ...

The tornado strengthened to the low end of category EF1 as it crossed Jeffersonville-West Lancaster Road. Wind speeds peaked at around 90 mph at this location, NWS said. NWS said one building was ...

The strongest of the tornadoes, an EF3, developed about 6:55 p.m. and cut an 8-mile path north of Omaha across parts of Douglas and Washington counties, with a peak wind speed of about 140 mph.

On May, 6, 2024, the Storm Prediction Center assigned the high-risk category to parts of Kansas and Oklahoma, warning of “multiple significant tornadoes along potentially long paths.” ...