Ted Fujita was a Japanese-American engineer turned meteorologist. He immersed himself in research on tornadoes and introduced the “Fujita Scale”, a six-point scale to classify degrees of ...

The Enhanced Fujita Scale provides an estimated range of a tornado's wind speeds, based on the tornado's damage.

A quirky aspect of the way we measure twisters helps explain why there hasn't been a top-tier-rated tornado in 12 years.

Researches found little evidence that tornadoes were getting weaker. Instead, it appears that a subjective tornado grading system is to blame.

Tornadoes are classified on the Enhanced Fujita scale, which ranges from EF0 to EF5. Originally created by famed tornado researcher Ted Fujita, the scale takes into account estimated wind speeds ...

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