Nearly three decades ago, a monstrous F5 tornado tore through multiple Birmingham suburbs, wiping out dozens of structures, ...

which rated tornadoes from F0 to F5, based on estimated wind speeds and observed damage. Then, in 2007, the weather service adopted the Enhanced Fujita scale, which better reflected actual storm ...

Perhaps the signature of the event was an F5 tornado that hit Hesston, Kansas, about 30 miles north-northwest of Wichita. This well documented, up to three-quarter mile wide tornado first touched ...

Church bells in Murphysboro will also ring at 2:32 p.m., as this is the time when the tornado hit the community of Murphysboro 100 years ago, on March 18. The F5 tornado created havoc and traveled ...