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HazardHub identifies Texas, Louisiana, and California as the states with the greatest riverine flood loss potential and New Jersey, New York, and Virginia as the most vulnerable to coastal flood ...
Over the past 15 years, April, May, and June have consistently been the most active months for tornadoes, accounting for the highest total number and the most severe events (EF4 and EF5).
Tornadoes are measured using the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which ranks them from EF0 to EF5 based on the damage ... intricate ice crystals that form when water vapor in the atmosphere freezes.
Spring no longer means just warmer weather—it signals the start of the most destructive season for homeowners,” said Tammy ...
Each of these would be a major weather event anywhere in the country. But in one bizarre day, both the strongest possible ...
Seven months after a powerful EF3 tornado tore through the Binks Forest Drive area near the Pine Trace neighborhood, some ...
Unlike measuring size alone, the EF Scale rates tornadoes by the damage they cause, helping meteorologists and emergency ...
Storm Track 8 meteorologist Ryan Morse recently visited the ELC at Amy Beverland Elementary School in Lawrence. It was a day ...
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.