Caught in the Storm tells the story of a deadly EF5 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, and here's why storms are classified this ...

The process of tornado formation begins with colliding air masses that create instability in the atmosphere, producing ...

Instead, after a tornado hits, the U.S. National Weather Service uses a rating system it adopted in 1973 called the Fujita Scale. Devised by meteorologist Theodore Fujita in 1970, the F-scale ...

Premiering on PBS “American Experience," Rossi's film tells the story of Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (1920-1998), aka “Mr. Tornado”: a pioneering scientist who devoted his life to unlocking the mysteries ...

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 ...

This can happen in cornfields, the high-plains or in marshy areas. The original Fujita scale is named after Dr. Ted Fujita, a University of Chicago severe storms research scientist who came up ...

Spring has officially arrived in the Northern Hemisphere and the tornado season, especially in the U.S. east of the Rockies, has been ramping up. From March 13-17, over 100 twisters were reported that ...

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 ...