The documentary The Twister: Caught in the Storm is constantly using the Enhanced Fujita scale when talking about the tornadoes featured in the film, so here is how the EF scale works and how many ...

Two EF-0 tornadoes have been confirmed by the National Weather Service in St. Charles and Atlas Township from the line of ...

A massive tornado that tore through Lubbock on May 11, 1970, killed 26 people, left more than 500 injured, and caused $100 million in damages.

Recent years have seen the addition of EFU tornadoes, for which intensity isn't known, to the Enhanced Fujita scale used to ...

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 ...

Landspout tornado touches down in open fields near Farmland, Indiana. The National Weather Service issued a special weather ...

That’s why it’s important to understand how tornadoes are measured. Enter the EF Scale, short for Enhanced Fujita Scale. Unlike measuring size alone, the EF Scale rates tornadoes by the damage ...

The NWS said evidence indicates that a short-track EF-0 tornado touched down west of Celina. On the Enhanced-Fujita scale, an ...

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 ...

Decades after the Lubbock storm, researchers at Texas Tech University played a key role in developing the more accurate Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale. "NWS personnel, who are responsible for rating ...