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 ...

Oklahoma saw 74 tornadoes last year ranging in severity and speed, and most of them were rated EF1. But what does that rating actually mean? Here's what to know about EF scale and how are tornadoes ...

Fujita Scale, or F-Scale, levels are based on the damage caused by tornado wind speed. Dr. T. Theodore Fujita developed the scale in the early 1970s. Experts caution that the F-Scale is not a ...

The National Weather Service uses the Enhanced Fujita Scale, or EF-Scale, to assign tornado ratings based on estimated wind speeds and related damage.The Enhanced Fujita Scale, which replaced the ...

From the beginning of tornado season in April to its end in August, EF rankings for one tornado after another might blow by and leave your head spinning. However, the tragic death of a toddler and the ...

MOLINE, Ill. — On Monday, the National Weather Service issued measurements for the tornado that went through Winterset, Iowa, as an EF-4, and the two tornadoes in the Quad Cities as an EF-0 and EF-1.

(WJET/WFXP) — A tornado outbreak recently slammed the Midwest, and now the National Weather Service is tasked with giving each twister a rating. Preliminary ratings for those tornadoes are expected to ...