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 ...

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 ...

Tornadoes are classified using a scale known as the "F" or Fujita scale. The scale is named after its developer, Dr. Ted Fujita. Unlike hurricanes which are classified throughout their development, ...

Severe weather season in Texas, or when severe thunderstorm activity peaks between March and June, coincides with transitional weather patterns typical for spring. The jet stream’s position over Texas ...

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.

May 21 (Reuters) - The tornado that slammed into the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people, was upgraded on Tuesday to a rating of EF5, the category reserved for the most damaging twisters ...

There are a lot of extreme cars in this world, and all of them are advertised as the superlatives of their realm. What that means it that, at least for their makers and fans, it doesn't get any better ...

“It very much resembled a movie set of a bombed city during World War II.” - Robert Taylor, CEO of United Supermarkets; Texas Tech student The time was 9:46 p.m. Night had fallen, and the flat plains ...

I'm sick of people watching tornadoes on TV, pointing at vague images on the horizon and saying: "that there's about an F4." Please explain the Fujita scale. -- W.N.D., Tulsa. The Fujita scale. This ...