The Enhanced Fujita Scale provides an estimated range of a tornado's wind speeds, based on the tornado's damage.

If you live in a high-rise apartment building, you should use the stairs to get to the bottom floor, and seek shelter in the ...

One question you may ask yourself is how tornadoes are measured? It's with the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale which is gives a ...

Researches found little evidence that tornadoes were getting weaker. Instead, it appears that a subjective tornado grading system is to blame.

A quirky aspect of the way we measure twisters helps explain why there hasn't been a top-tier-rated tornado in 12 years.

NWS rated Monday's Woodville, NC tornado as a high-end EF-1 tornado. Here's a deeper dive into the Enhanced Fujita scale.

The National Weather Service in St. Louis has confirmed three tornadoes hit the St. Louis area during Friday's storms, ...

MISSOURI & ILLINOIS- The National Weather Service (NWS) has completed surveys and compiled a list of tornadoes. The tornado in DuQuoin, Illinois, and the Rolla tornado were not in the NWS list. The ...

Tornadoes are measured using the Enhanced Fujita Scale. National Weather Service confirmed 11 tornadoes on the Treasure Coast in Oct. 2024, before Hurricane Milton made landfall. A tornado warning ...

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 ...

The Enhanced Fujita Scale, love it or hate it, is our current system for rating the hundreds of tornadoes that occur each year across the United States. To much chagrin, it rates tornadoes solely ...