Nature's Whirlwinds Tornadoes are one of nature’s most violent storms, characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.

and is widely known for creating the Fujita scale of tornado intensity and damage.

Instead, after a tornado hits, the U.S. National Weather Service uses a rating system it adopted in 1973 called the Fujita Scale. Devised by meteorologist Theodore Fujita in 1970, the F-scale ...

He immersed himself in research on tornadoes and introduced the “Fujita Scale”, a six-point scale to classify degrees of tornado intensity.

A "hook echo" and tornado as mapped at fine-scale resolution by a Doppler On Wheels (DOW) radar. Image courtesy of the Center for Severe Weather Research. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

A dangerous weekend is about to unfold across the lower Mississippi and Tennessee valleys as severe thunderstorms and torrential downpours blast the region, endangering lives and property, AccuWeather ...

Tornados are categorised using the International Tornado Intensity Scale (The T Scale) which ranks the event based on separate wind speed, track length, track width and track area, according to ...

Tornados are categorised using the International Tornado Intensity Scale (The T Scale) which ranks the event based on separate wind speed, track length, track width and track area, according to the ...