Simply put, the EF5 tornadoes featured in Twisters and the F5 ones differ on the scale they are categorized on. The Fujita scale, introduced by meteorologist Dr. Tetsuya Theodore Fujita in the ...

Articles published early online in American Meteorological Society journals discuss weather associated with California wildfires, the "drought" of EF5 tornadoes, and U.S. locations at heightened risk ...

Tornado Speed One of the most striking attributes of tornadoes is their incredible speed. The wind speeds within a tornado ...

Officials from the National Weather Service gave the tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20 a preliminary EF5 rating -- the highest score on the scale that measures tornado intensities. David ...

A possible tornado swept through a swath of Tennessee, killing a mother and daughter and injuring at least three other people ...

On May 22 2011 the unthinkable happened an EF5 34 to 1 mile wide tornado developed within seconds and tore through the heart of Joplin Missouri Leaving in its wake complete and total destruction ...

The weather service said the tornado was an EF2 on the agency's scale that rates the strength of tornadoes from EF0 up to EF5, the highest rating. The Morgan County Emergency Management and ...

Oklahoma recently saw the destructive power of an EF5 tornado, but in the aftermath of the devastation, we've also been witness to the incredible resilience of the human spirit. Moore, OK resident ...