The Enhanced Fujita Scale, love it or hate it, is our current system for rating the hundreds of tornadoes that occur each year across the United States. To much chagrin, it rates tornadoes solely ...

(WJET/WFXP) — A tornado outbreak recently slammed the Midwest, and now the National Weather Service is tasked with giving each twister a rating. Preliminary ratings for those tornadoes are expected to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The strength of a tornado is based on what is called the Enhanced Fujita Scale, a years-old way of classifying how intense a tornado was based on damage and wind speeds, ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - When a tornado strikes, a team from the National Weather Service (NWS) is sent out to assess the storm’s wind speeds and damage. From that assessment, the tornado is given a ...

From the beginning of tornado season in April to its end in August, EF rankings for one tornado after another might blow by and leave your head spinning. However, the tragic death of a toddler and the ...

10/11 Meteorologists Carmelo Lattuca and Bill Rentschler dive into hail and how it forms in 10/11's Weather Academy.

CARTERVILLE, Ill. (WSIL) -- One question you may ask yourself is how tornadoes are measured? It's with the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale which is gives a tornado a rating based on the damage and ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — This severe weather season has been an active one, with dozens of tornados causing damage across the country. The National Weather Service uses a lot of tools to measure these storms, ...

May 20, 2013, marks the last time the United States was hit by the worst type of tornado. On that date, a monster EF5 tornado tore a 17-mile path through the Oklahoma City suburbs, creating "40 ...

But what is the difference? The differences between the scales are significant. The EF scale, better known as the Enhanced Fujita Scale, was adopted by the National Weather Service (NWS) in 2007. This ...