The Enhanced Fujita Scale is a tornado rating that determines the wind speed by the damage the tornado produces but do we ...

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

Instead, after a tornado hits, the U.S. National Weather Service uses a rating system it adopted in 1973 called the Fujita Scale. Devised by meteorologist Theodore Fujita in 1970, the F-scale ...

He immersed himself in research on tornadoes and introduced the “Fujita Scale”, a six-point scale to classify degrees of tornado intensity.

(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 estimated wind speeds.

This new scale includes more types of structures and vegetation along with the differences in construction quality. It isn't as subjective as the original Fujita scale was. Also, an EFU category ...

The EF Scale became operational in 2007 and was revised from the original Fujita Scale, the NWS said. When weather officials survey tornado-related damage, it is compared to the list of 28 Damage ...