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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s a look at how a tornado leaves behind EF-5 damage and why so few intense tornadoes ever manage to meet that terrifying level of destruction. Dr. Theodore Fujita developed the Fujita (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.