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

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - After a tornado event, the National Weather Service sends out teams to survey the damage and classify tornadoes using the Enhanced Fujita Scale. The scale ranges from EF-0 to ...

This is the time of year, when Texas sees more severe thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes, you might hear more about where a twister ranked on the Enhanced Fujita scale or its EF rating. Among the ...

Damage surveys provide crucial information about when, where and how strong U.S. tornadoes are to better understand disaster risk ...

Devised by meteorologist Theodore Fujita in 1970, the F-scale enables experts to estimate a tornado's maximum wind speed in relation to the single most destructive thing it did. In this ...

A National Weather Service survey team arrived in less than 48 hours after the tornado hit. Damage from the EF1 twister, even ...