The 2011 EF5 tornado is Joplin, Missouri was incredibly ... although this still doesn't explain how it got inside the 13 infected people. As it turns out, the fungi got into some humans through ...

In today’s modern rate, it would have been about a billion dollars worth of damage. At the time, it was the costliest tornado in history. Now it’s the Joplin tornado, which caused $3 billion worth of ...

The NWS confirmed that four tornadoes touched down on Sunday as thunderstorms swept through parts of the state.

Unlike measuring size alone, the EF Scale rates tornadoes by the damage they cause, helping meteorologists and emergency ...

This scale, implemented in 2007, categorizes tornadoes from EF0, the weakest tornadoes, to EF5, the strongest. The wind speeds are just estimates, based on damage surveys conducted by the National ...

From 2 p.m. and 10 p.m., the violent tornadoes ripped through communities. Courtesy: National Weather Service During the afternoon period, the EF5 and EF4 tornadoes tore through communities.

The city of Moore was the epicenter of an EF5 tornado Monday, May 20, that decimated neighborhoods in the Oklahoma City area and took the lives of some of its citizens. Teams are still evaluating ...

This rises to 69% when examining tornadoes F4/EF4 or stronger. The most violent F5/EF5 rating has been assigned to 59 tornadoes dating back to 1950, and all but 10 of those occurred in April ...

There hasn't been an EF5 tornado since May 20, 2013. This is the well-known Moore Oklahoma tornado with unfortunately 24 fatalities and 212 injuries. To stream NewsWest9 on your phone, you need ...

Each of these tornadoes were surveyed on the damage they caused and were given an EF rating of EF0 to EF5 by the National Weather Service. As common as tornadoes are in Texas, the most violent ...