Nearly three decades ago, a monstrous EF5 tornado tore through multiple Birmingham suburbs, wiping out dozens of structures, claiming the lives of 32 people and injuring hundreds.After touching down ...

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

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.

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.

At least one tornado touched down in Iowa along with baseball-sized hail in severe storms that also hit Nebraska and worked ...

the weakest tornadoes, to EF5, the strongest. The wind speeds are just estimates, based on damage surveys conducted by the National Weather Service, and not actual wind measurements. Throughout ...

Tornadoes Are Rated On The Enhanced Fujita Scale: Survey crews assign a rating from EF0 (light damage) to the rare EF5 (incredible damage), based on the most severe damage observed along a tornado ...