WE HEAR ABOUT TORNADOES RATED ON A SCALE EF ... an EF4 has wind speeds of 166 to 200 mph.Finally, the EF5, which is the strongest with catastrophic damage, with speeds over 201 mph.Stay up to ...

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

Tornado and severe weather season in the central U.S. have ramped up this spring. Last week was especially tough as at least 50 twisters were reported from the Deep South northeastward into Michigan.

Damage looks flattened out, with trees pointing in the same direction or fanning out from one another. Just four Ohio tornadoes since 1950 have received the most severe EF5 designation.

That was the very first EF5 tornado of the whole new EF scale that happened in 2007 [when it replaced the former Fujita scale]. That was my first real experience with catastrophic tornado damage.

An EF-1 tornado touched down in Columbia, Missouri, on Easter Sunday, causing significant damage and prompting an ... Enhanced Fujita tornado scale. The Joplin 2011 tornado, for comparison ...

Jim Long surveys damage to his home from one of the possible tornadoes that hit Parker County on Saturday, April 19, 2025. Shambhavi Rimal [email protected] The National Weather Service was ...

The U.S. experiences an average of more than 1,200 tornadoes annually, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and claiming ... after the EF-5 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, in 2011 ...