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 ...

Once they estimate the wind speed that could’ve caused the damage, using ground reports and Doppler radar data, they can then establish an Enhanced Fujita scale rating for that tornado.

This is the time of year, when Texas sees more severe thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes, you might hear more about where a twister ranked on the Enhanced Fujita scale or its EF rating.

That’s where the Enhanced Fujita Scale, more commonly known as the EF scale, comes into play. The EF scale is the scale that meteorologists use to survey damage and estimate a tornado’s ...

THAT IS, A FULLY FORMED TORNADO. NOW, IN MEASURING TORNADO STRENGTH, WE USE THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE, OR THE EF SCALE THAT’S BEEN UPDATED. MAYBE SOME FOLKS MY AGE ARE A LITTLE OLDER.

It is not factual. A new category will be added to the Fujita scale from 2026 to formally recognise the ‘mini tornado’. The Fujita scale, and the revised Enhanced Fujita scale, are widely accepted ...

Tornadoes of that magnitude are among the strongest on the Enhanced Fujita scale, used to rate their intensity. At a slightly lower risk for severe weather on Wednesday is an area that includes ...

In 2007, the National Weather Service switched to the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Under that scale, the Hoisington Tornado would be considered a devastating EF-5 tornado. After it touched down ...

That community experienced the devastating impact of an EF-5 tornado— the most intense category on the Enhanced Fujita Scale—with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour. The destruction was ...

Ramgopal Rao underscored the need for enhanced funding, research at scale and removing bureaucratic hurdles. At scale, there are no facilities. Raising money for deep tech ventures is a big ...

In this edition of Weather Tidbits, we’re going to be discussing tornado intensity levels based off of the Enhanced Fujita Scale and talk about their rarity. This is based off of 21,540 ...

The Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF Scale) is used to rate tornadoes based on related damage and estimated wind speeds. When meteorologists survey tornado-related damage, it’s compared to a list of ...