The Enhanced Fujita Scale is a tornado rating that determines the wind speed by the damage the tornado produces but do we ...

Netflix’s The Twister: Caught in the Storm revisits the harrowing events of May 22, 2011, when an EF5 tornado devastated Joplin, Missouri. With winds reaching up to 200 mph, the tornado tore a ...

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 ...

The other, which had the most severe damage near Diaz in Jackson County, was determined to be a high-end EF4 tornado with maximum winds of 190 mph. For comparison, an EF5 tornado has winds of at ...

Still from Twisters (Image via Universal Pictures) Just like the waterspouts in Twister, there is a fire-based variation ... more weight and impact. The EF5 tornadoes are some of the most ...

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 ...

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 ...