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 ...

When a tornado tears through an area, the main question after the fact is, “How strong was it?” That’s where the Enhanced ...

This is the time of year, when Texas sees more severe thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes, you might hear more about where a twister ranked on the Enhanced Fujita scale or its EF rating.

A relatively weak tornado produced a record-breaking and more-than-mile-wide swath of damage in Iowa. Here's how that stacks ...

Based on the level of damage, scientists then reverse-engineer the wind speeds and assign a tornado a rating on the scale. Researchers say that in recent years tornadoes seem to be occurring in gr ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued Sunday's tornado near New Bloomfield a preliminary EF-2 rating. In a statement on ...

WAVE 3 meteorologist Tawana Andrew breaks down what we know and what we don't about the climate and weather here in ...

Thankfully, no injuries were reported with this tornado. Below is information on the Tornado rating scale. The Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF Scale) is based on a Damage Index, and not on the wind ...

The National Weather Service confirmed a weak tornado caused damage to a neighborhood on the northwest edge of town on Sunday ...

The National Weather Service’s Fort Worth office has confirmed at least 10 tornadoes touched down in North Texas on April 19.

Less than three weeks after a major outbreak, another rash of tornadoes tore across parts of the South and Midwest in early ...

Severe weather season in Texas, or when severe thunderstorm activity peaks between March and June, coincides with transitional weather patterns typical for spring. The jet stream’s position over ...