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

The Fujita scale, and the revised Enhanced Fujita scale, are widely accepted scales used for rating tornado intensity. They ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

To understand what has changed, we need to dive into a little background on how tornadoes are measured or rated. Before February 1, 2007, the Fujita scale was used to estimate a tornado's ...

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 ...

He immersed himself in research on tornadoes and introduced the “Fujita Scale”, a six-point scale to classify degrees of tornado intensity.