Lubbock remembers. Lubbock remembers the night a deadly F5 tornado tore through the community. Lubbock remembers the hurts and the loss of 26 men, women and children. But Lubbock remembers the aid it ...

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 ...

You probably recognize the name Dr. Ted Fujita from the Fujita Scale -- the original tornado scale that he developed in 1971 in the Midwest.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — It’s the 50-year anniversary of the first tornado rating scale put into use in the United States. Today, this scale has been upgraded and uses rigorous damage guide points to ...

A twister that touched down in June was recently confirmed to be a rare EF-5 tornado. New York has seen its share of strong ...

(WHTM) — With a tornado being confirmed in York County on Monday, June 12 and it being an EF0, some may wonder where the rating comes from and what the ratings mean. According to the National Weather ...

When designing a new home, is it practical or necessary to design for wind loads in the F3 to F4 tornado range (158 to 260 miles per hour)? I know this can be done with the right hardware and ...

In the nation's long history of tornado outbreaks, two of them stand atop all others as super outbreaks. One of these happened on April 3, 1974, 51 years ago today. In just 24 hours, a rash of 148 ...

I'm sick of people watching tornadoes on TV, pointing at vague images on the horizon and saying: "that there's about an F4." Please explain the Fujita scale. -- W.N.D., Tulsa. The Fujita scale. This ...