This scale, implemented in 2007, categorizes tornadoes from EF0, the weakest tornadoes, to EF5, the strongest. The wind speeds are just estimates, based on damage surveys conducted by the National ...

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 ...

An EF3 is a severe tornado with buildings lost, estimated wind speeds of 136 to 165. Then, an EF4 has wind speeds of 166 to 200 mph. Finally, the EF5, which is the strongest with catastrophic ...

One April tornado outbreak was among the nation's most impactful, but also arguably one of the most important for the future of severe weather forecasting. On April 11, 1965, 60 years ago today ...

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 ...

The Dickson City Fire Department is putting together the State Fire Academy's Flashover Simulator Training Program at Eagle Hose Company Number 1. A flashover is a dangerous situation where much ...

BackStoppers Inc. recently presented Grace Moore, widow of Whitewater Fire Protection District chief ... while responding to the tornado that caused a significant amount of destruction in the ...

The National Weather Service on Saturday evening confirmed four tornadoes in the Chicago area, including an EF-1 tornado in Cedar Lake — meaning wind gusts could have ranged anywhere from 86 to ...