That’s where the Enhanced Fujita Scale, more commonly known as the EF scale, comes into play. The EF scale is the scale that meteorologists use to survey damage and estimate a tornado’s ...

This is the time of year, when Texas sees more severe thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes, you might hear more about where a twister ranked on the Enhanced Fujita scale or its EF rating.

That community experienced the devastating impact of an EF-5 tornado— the most intense category on the Enhanced Fujita Scale—with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour. The destruction was ...

inventor of the Fujita Scale. Wet downbursts carry rain with the wind, while dry downbursts can be invisible. An infamous plane crash at New York's Kennedy Airport on June 24, 1975, killed 113 ...

Back in 1973, the National Weather Service began ranking tornadoes on the Fujita Scale, which rated tornadoes from F0 to F5, based on estimated wind speeds and observed damage. Then, in 2007 ...

The county hasn't recorded an EF-5. The EF, or Enhanced Fujita scale, is the scale meteorologists use to judge the intensity of a tornado. EF-0 tornados have three-second gusts of 65 mph to 85 mph.

There were at least six tornadoes reported. They reached EF3 strength on the Enhanced Fujita Scale and damaged several homes and other buildings, despite being on the ground for only a short time.

a small tornado (rated EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita scale) touched down April 25 near Greenville in Darke County, in Western Ohio along the Indiana border. The tornado struck a property on ...

THAT IS, A FULLY FORMED TORNADO. NOW, IN MEASURING TORNADO STRENGTH, WE USE THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE, OR THE EF SCALE THAT’S BEEN UPDATED. MAYBE SOME FOLKS MY AGE ARE A LITTLE OLDER.

including Tetusya “Ted” Fujita (University of Chicago), who co-developed the Fujita intensity scale with Allen Pearson. The first incarnation of “Significant Tornadoes” covered the period ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A confirmed tornado touched down in Waycross on Monday night. Shortly after 7 p.m., Action News Jax Chief Meteorologist Mike Buresh was on the air before the tornado touched ...

These were all significant tornadoes with 8 of the 10 twisters in the state being F4 and the other two F3 (this was nearly 40 years before the Enhanced Fujita scale was implemented). These were all ...