NWS rated Monday's Woodville, NC tornado as a high-end EF-1 tornado. Here's a deeper dive into the Enhanced Fujita scale.

the scale takes into account estimated wind speeds, observed damage and damage verified in weather service surveys after ...

The Enhanced Fujita Scale provides an estimated range of a tornado's wind speeds, based on the tornado's damage.

Tornadoes are classified through the Enhanced Fujita, or EF, scale, which rates storms on a scale of 0 to 5 based on recorded ...

A quirky aspect of the way we measure twisters helps explain why there hasn't been a top-tier-rated tornado in 12 years.

One question you may ask yourself is how tornadoes are measured? It's with the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale which is gives a ...

It highlighted the need for better tracking and warning of tornadoes, especially in high-risk regions. It also proved meteorological theories of the late, great mind of Dr. Theodore Fuijta ...

After severe weather Friday night, several counties in north Arkansas suffered damage from tornadoes, according to the ...

Several tornado warnings have been issued in Missouri, while Georgia's governor declares a state of emergency.

the scale takes into account estimated wind speeds, observed damage and damage verified in weather service surveys after tornadoes. The original "F-scale" was in use from the 1970s to 2007 ...