When a tornado tears through an area, the main question after the fact is, “How strong was it?” That’s where the Enhanced ...

Average sustained wind speeds in April vary across Lone Star ... 1997— the same day as the devastating F5 tornado in Jarrell, north of Austin in Williamson County. Why can thunderstorm wind ...

which ranges from F0 to F5, is based upon the type and severity of damage the tornado produced. At that time, there were very few actual measurements of tornado wind speeds that he could relate to ...

(KNWA/KFTA) — April 10, 1929, was the day the only documented F5 tornado occurred in ... was used to classify tornadoes based on wind speeds. Through several years of rating tornadoes, it ...

A deadly tornado outbreak ripped through the South and Midwest Wednesday and Thursday, destroying homes and neighborhoods, damaging vehicles, bringing down trees and utility lines and knocking out ...

The NWS does this by looking at damage caused and estimating the wind speeds the tornado ... F0/EF0 or F1/EF1. Violent tornadoes — those rated F4/EF4 and F5/EF5 — are much rarer.

The day of the all-out nuclear war dawns like any other. There is no warning and people are going about their normal lives in ...

The tornado ... F5, the most intense tornadoes in the Fujita (now Enhanced Fujita) scale. At one time, 15 tornadoes were simultaneously in progress. Many of those tornadoes moved at forward speeds ...