The 2011 EF5 tornado is Joplin, Missouri was incredibly ... with it being one of the many scary parts of the tornado seen in The Twister: Caught in the Storm.

From 2 p.m. and 10 p.m., the violent tornadoes ripped through communities. Courtesy: National Weather Service During the afternoon period, the EF5 and EF4 tornadoes tore through communities.

On April 26, 1991, an EF5 tornado ripped through Haysville, Wichita, McConnell AFB and Andover. Kathleen Gideon says it hit her Wichita home before she ever knew the devastation it would cause ...

tornado in May 2007. That was the very first EF5 tornado of the whole new EF scale that happened in 2007 [when it replaced the former Fujita scale]. That was my first real experience with ...

Tornadoes are among the strongest and deadliest types of weather, capable of destroying entire neighborhoods in minutes. However, the most powerful tornadoes, classified as EF5, make up less than 1% ...

This rises to 69% when examining tornadoes F4/EF4 or stronger. The most violent F5/EF5 rating has been assigned to 59 tornadoes dating back to 1950, and all but 10 of those occurred in April ...

Each of these tornadoes were surveyed on the damage they caused and were given an EF rating of EF0 to EF5 by the National Weather Service. As common as tornadoes are in Texas, the most violent ...

Over the past 15 years, April, May, and June have consistently been the most active months for tornadoes, accounting for the highest total number and the most severe events (EF4 and EF5).