Caught in the Storm tells the story of a deadly EF5 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, and here's why storms are classified this ...
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 ...
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 ...
NWS rated Monday's Woodville, NC tornado as a high-end EF-1 tornado. Here's a deeper dive into the Enhanced Fujita scale.
The process of tornado formation begins with colliding air masses that create instability in the atmosphere, producing ...