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 ...

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 ...

NWS rated Monday's Woodville, NC tornado as a high-end EF-1 tornado. Here's a deeper dive into the Enhanced Fujita scale.