A relatively weak tornado produced a record-breaking and more-than-mile-wide swath of damage in Iowa. Here's how that stacks ...

April 10, 1929, was the day the only documented F5 tornado occurred in Arkansas. It stretched from southern Batesville to north of Swifton and southern Alicia. How ...

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. Among the ...

This has tended to limited the number of strong and violent tornado ratings over the years. Another drawback is that the scale only takes damage into effect when rating tornadoes. This means that ...

Damage surveys provide crucial information about when, where and how strong U.S. tornadoes are to better understand disaster ...

Storm surveys can take days to weeks in order to finalize. Such is the case with a March 14, 2025, tornado which in recent ...

Thankfully, no injuries were reported with this tornado. Below is information on the Tornado rating scale. The Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF Scale) is based on a Damage Index, and not on the wind ...

Scale. You can learn more about these scales here. Due to the method in which tornadoes are logged in the database, some tornadoes may be recorded more than once and could skew data. (Example: On ...

Less than three weeks after a major outbreak, another rash of tornadoes tore across parts of the South and Midwest in early ...

On the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale, an EF-2 rating is assigned to tornados with wind speeds of 111 to 135 miles an hour, which damage that is considered significant. Officials say the tornado ...

A National Weather Service survey team arrived in less than 48 hours after the tornado hit. Damage from the EF1 twister, even ...