For many of the people who attended the standing-room-only discussion of the 40th anniversary of the May 31, 1985, tornado ...

For many of the people who attended the standing-room-only discussion of the 40th anniversary of the May 31, 1985, tornado Saturday at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, their disaster ...

The tornado moved in a bizarre southwest direction as its extreme winds leveled homes and hurled vehicles far from the ...

Without question, tornadoes are the ultimate manifestation of extreme weather. No other weather event is as violent or awe inspiring. The United States reports more of these storms than any other ...

Fairfield County only have been hit with F0 and F1 tornadoes One of Ohio's ... an hour and a half away from Lancaster, the Xenia F5 tornado on April 3, 1974, that took 34 lives.

From the archives: World-Famous Tornado Researcher Launched Career in Hiroshima, Nagasaki This data led to the development of the Fujita Scale (F0-F5) in 1971, which was later updated in 2007 to ...

Image by momentumts80.gmail via Depositphotos. Developed by Dr. Tetsuya Fujita, the Fujita Scale classifies tornadoes based on the damage they cause, ranging from F0 to F5. During the 1974 Super ...

To this day, the maximum speed reached by a tornado is an estimate, never an observed number. The Fujita scale ranged from F0 having max gusts ... and finally, F5, indicating speeds of up to ...

which rated tornadoes from F0 to F5, based on estimated wind speeds and observed damage. Then, in 2007, the weather service adopted the Enhanced Fujita scale, which better reflected actual storm ...

Throughout history, most Bexar County tornadoes have been relatively weak, with 56 of the 71 being rated as an F0/EF0 or F1/EF1 ... more than $50 million. An F5/EF5 tornado has never been ...