Nearly three decades ago, a monstrous EF5 tornado tore through multiple Birmingham ... mobile home and destroying the Oak Grove School, a fire department and several other buildings.

Unlike measuring size alone, the EF Scale rates tornadoes by the damage they cause, helping meteorologists and emergency ...

On April 26, 1991, an EF5 tornado ripped through Haysville, Wichita, McConnell AFB and Andover. Kathleen Gideon says it hit her Wichita home before she ever knew the devastation it would cause ...

For comparison, an EF5 tornado has winds of at least 201 mph ... when a tree fell on a home in Transylvania County, Connestee Fire Rescue posted on Facebook. The numbers are expected to rise ...

The city of Moore was the epicenter of an EF5 tornado Monday, May 20, that decimated neighborhoods in the Oklahoma City area and took the lives of some of its citizens. Teams are still evaluating ...

Damage surveys provide crucial information about when, where and how strong U.S. tornadoes are to better understand disaster risk ...

However, the most powerful tornadoes, classified as EF5, make up less than 1% of all tornadoes in the United States, and it has been nearly 12 years since one touched down. There have been many ...

As the daily dose of severe weather continues over parts of the central United States into next week, the risk to lives and ...