Perhaps the signature of the event was an F5 tornado that hit Hesston, Kansas, about 30 miles north-northwest of Wichita. This well documented, up to three-quarter mile wide tornado first touched ...

On March 3, 1966, 59 years ago today, an F5 tornado tore a 202-mile long path across central and eastern Mississippi into western Alabama. Of the 58 people killed by the twister, 57 were in ...

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Tornado classifications have evolved since the original Fujita (F scale) was developed in 1971. Under the original F scale, an F5 rating was given as follows: “Whole frame houses tossed off ...

Before the Fujita scale was updated in 2007, a well-built house swept clean of its foundation was one of the hallmark indicators of an F5 tornado. But in the enhanced scale, the average value of winds ...