The documentary The Twister: Caught in the Storm is constantly using the Enhanced Fujita scale when talking about the tornadoes featured in the film, so here is how the EF scale works and how many ...

Texas sees an average of 135 tornadoes each year, the most of any U.S. state. Here's a look at the worst ones in the Lone ...

A Central Oklahoma community still recovering from an EF-1 tornado in March found itself the target of another natural ...

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

The twister that hit the trailer park and other ... The National Weather Service said Tuesday the tornado was an F3 on the Fujita scale, with up to 200 mph winds.(The Fujita scale explained ...

Once they estimate the wind speed that could’ve caused the damage, using ground reports and Doppler radar data, they can then establish an Enhanced Fujita scale rating for that tornado.

Instead, after a tornado hits, the U.S. National Weather Service uses a rating system it adopted in 1973 called the Fujita Scale. Devised by meteorologist Theodore Fujita in 1970, the F-scale ...

Two of the tornadoes — both rated as an EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale — touched down in Butler ... also in southwest Ohio. The twister reached a peak wind gust of 90 miles per hour, and ...

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

The National Weather Service reported that the tornado that hit northern Douglas and southeast Washington counties was an EF3. The twister was on the ground for more than eight miles and had an ...