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 ...

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 Texas ...

From the beginning of tornado season in April to its end in August, EF rankings for one tornado after another might blow by and leave your head spinning. However, the tragic death of a toddler and the ...

A number of tornadoes went through the Midwest this weekend. As the weather settles, there will be survey teams from the National Weather Service out among those affected, surveying the damage left ...

The Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale measures the strength of tornadoes based on an estimation of wind speeds by surveying degrees of damage done to different structures. The EF Scale runs on a zero to five ...

Dear Action Line: I have been hearing about the "Fujita scale" of tornado intensity being upgraded to an enhanced version. What was wrong with the old scale, and how is the new scale different? -- J.W ...

WELL, AS SURVEYS CONTINUE, WE’RE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE STRENGTH OF THE TORNADOES THAT HIT THE METRO LAST WEEK. METEOROLOGIST CAITLIN HARVEY BREAKS DOWN THE EF SCALE THAT’S USED TO RANK TORNADOES IN ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The differences between the scales are ...

A team of 22 meteorologists and weather experts spent years developing the first standardized dust storm scale. It's designed ...