Caught in the Storm tells the story of a deadly EF5 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, and here's why storms are classified this way.

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

CARTERVILLE, Ill. (WSIL) -- One question you may ask yourself is how tornadoes are measured? It's with the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale which is gives a tornado a rating based on the damage and ...

The NWS confirmed that four tornadoes touched down on Sunday as thunderstorms swept through parts of the state.

April 10, 1929, was the day the only documented F5 tornado occurred in Arkansas. It stretched from southern Batesville to ...

but not all supercells produce tornadoes. Damage from the 1999 F5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma. Photo courtesy NOAA. Dr. T. Theodore Fujita developed the Fujita Tornado Damage Scale (F ...

The EF scale was named after Dr. Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita, the meteorologist who created the method of rating tornadoes. Dr. Fujita first designed this scale back in 1971. The original scale ...

the meteorologist who created this method of rating tornadoes. Dr. Fujita first designed this scale back in 1971. The original scale was named the "F Scale." The F Scale was replaced by the EF ...