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

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 ...

A powerful, wide-reaching spring storm is threatening parts of the central and eastern US, with a life-threatening outbreak ...

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.

The tornado that touched down east of Brownsburg in Hendricks County on Wednesday night was an EF2, the National Weather Service confirmed. National Weather Service (NWS) Indianapolis said their ...

Each of these tornadoes were surveyed on the damage they caused and were given an EF rating of EF0 to EF5 by the National Weather Service. As common as tornadoes are in Texas, the most violent ...

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 ...