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

Tornado classifications have evolved since the original Fujita (F scale) was developed in 1971. Under the original F scale, an F5 rating was given as follows: “Whole frame houses tossed off ...

"It’s likely that several of these tornadoes would have been rated F5 using the legacy Fujita scale." Thus, the lack of EF5-rated tornadoes in the past decade is "less due to a weakening of ...

The item is a Maple tree with a 2X4 piece of wood driven through it which occurred during the F5 tornado of 1925. This item was cut down and shipped to Springfield to be part of the state archives ...

Even by Plains standards, this was an unusually large, violent tornado outbreak so early in spring. One Kansas tornado was ...

Unfortunately, a few of those can be violent tornadoes, particularly in the South. On March 3, 1966, 59 years ago today, an F5 tornado tore a 202-mile long path across central and eastern Mississippi ...