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

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

To rate the strength of a tornado, meteorologists use the "EF Scale." EF stands for Enhance Fujita, named after Dr. Tutsuya Theodore Fujita, the meteorologist who created this method of rating ...

(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 estimated wind speeds.

MOLINE, Ill. — A new study published by the American Meteorological Society has shed light on a puzzling phenomenon: The United States has not logged an EF5 tornado, the most violent category ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Tornadoes are based on the Enhanced Fujita Scale from an EF-1 (winds 86-110 mph) to EF-5 (winds 200 mph +). The safest place to be in your home is the basement because most ...

At around 3:15 a.m., the tornado, an EF-0 on the Enhanced Fujita scale with wind speeds of up to 85 mph, touched down at a neighborhood on the 9500 block of Glencannon Drive. It spanned ...