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 ...

SO TRUE. PREPARATION IS KEY TO SAFETY. WE HEAR ABOUT TORNADOES RATED ON A SCALE EF ZERO TO EF FIVE, BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN AND HOW IS THAT DETERMINED? METEOROLOGIST CAITLIN HARVEY EXPLAINS. WITH ...

On the morning of May 11, 1970, skies darkened over Lubbock and winds began to rise, setting the stage for the kind of storm many in Tornado Alley pray never comes their way. By late that Monday ...

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 EF5 ...

LEWIS COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tornadoes can be extremely destructive and dangerous with winds reaching in excess of 200 miles per hour. However, have you ever wondered what the weakest tornado is? The ...

As summertime thunderstorms start to pick up and hurricane season has begun as of June 1, it’s important to refresh on the various types of weather hazards. From rain, hail, wind and flooding, there ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — While North Carolina isn’t part of the traditional Tornado Alley, we’re no strangers to severe weather — especially in the spring or during hurricane season. That’s why it’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The severe weather season is beginning. In ...

Year after year, Texas is a hotbed for tornadoes. The state’s geography allows warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico to collide with the cooler, drier air from the west to create the perfect ...

The NWS said in a June 19 Facebook post that the strongest tornado, documented north of Jacksonville with an EF of at least 2, was not yet plotted. The Enhanced Fujita, or EF, Scale rates tornadoes ...

A tornado that damaged dozens of homes in Kentwood and killed three people in Mississippi Saturday has been categorized as an EF-4 storm that, at its peak, produced winds of 170 mph, according to a ...