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 ...

When a tornado tears through an area, the main question after the fact is, “How strong was it?” That’s where the Enhanced ...

AccuWeather Meteorologist Tony Laubach goes into the history of the Fujita scale of rating tornadoes ... to Remove Tariffs on US After Trump’s Action Mike Myers as Elon Musk introduces ...

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 ...

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.

That community experienced the devastating impact of an EF-5 tornado— the most intense category on the Enhanced Fujita Scale—with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour. The destruction was ...