The Enhanced Fujita Scale: A Tornado Rating System
The Enhanced Fujita Scale provides an estimated range of a tornado's wind speeds, based on the tornado's damage.
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Why A Severe Thunderstorm Warning Could Save Your Life
They're much more common than tornadoes. Here's why severe thunderstorms are dangerous and why you should take action when a ...
Tornadoes, severe storms likely in Mississippi later this week. Here's when and where
Parts of Mississippi are at risk of tornadoes, large hail, and damaging wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour later this week.
National Weather Service confirms EF2 tornado hit Florida subdivision, TV station. See photos
The National Weather Service Melbourne confirmed an EF2 tornado hit Seminole County Monday morning. Several tornado warnings ...
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New study reveals potential cause of a ‘drought’ in violent EF5 tornadoes
A quirky aspect of the way we measure twisters helps explain why there hasn't been a top-tier-rated tornado in 12 years.
The worst type of tornado hasn't hit the US for over a decade, perplexing experts
Researches found little evidence that tornadoes were getting weaker. Instead, it appears that a subjective tornado grading ...
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Where did all the EF5 tornadoes go? New study explores the decade-long mystery
Upon further research and feedback from scientists, the Enhanced Fujita scale was developed and put into practice after February 1, 2007. What's the biggest difference? This new scale includes more ...
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Tornado warnings issued across Florida. What each alert means, how to set up phone alerts
Tornado warning: A sighting or weather radar indicated a tornado. Try to move to an interior room on the lowest level in a ...
Tornado touches down in Florida, hits local TV news station outside Orlando
Residents were urged to seek shelter after a tornado caused damage in Seminole County, Florida, the National Weather Service in Melbourne said.
Watch: Drone video shows Orlando-area homes in shards, trees uprooted after EF-2 Florida tornado
Aerial video taken after an EF-2 tornado ripped through a Florida neighborhood north of Orlando shows one home torn to pieces and old oak trees ripped from their roots along a normally quiet community ...
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The worst type of tornado hasn't hit the US for over a decade, perplexing experts
Tornadoes are classified on the Enhanced Fujita scale, which ranges from EF0 to EF5. Originally created by famed tornado researcher Ted Fujita, the scale takes into account estimated wind speeds ...