The documentary The Twister: Caught in the Storm is constantly using the Enhanced Fujita scale when talking about the tornadoes featured in the film, so here is how the EF scale works and how many ...

The scale is named after Tetsuya “Ted” Fujita, an engineer and meteorologist who developed the original version of it in 1971. Here are the Enhanced Fujita Scale ratings used today by the ...

Once they estimate the wind speed that could’ve caused the damage, using ground reports and Doppler radar data, they can then establish an Enhanced Fujita scale rating for that tornado.

Since Feb. 1, 2007, the National Weather Service has used the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale, an improved version of the scale designed by Dr. Tetsuya Theodore Fujita in 1971 to estimate tornado wind ...

Ratings go from EF-U to EF-5. MILWAUKEE - Tornadoes are categorized on what is called the Enhanced Fujita Scale or EF Scale. The Enhanced Fujita Scale became operational on February 1 ...

Decades after the Lubbock storm, researchers at Texas Tech University played a key role in developing the more accurate Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale. "NWS personnel, who are responsible for rating ...

Meteorologists do this using a scale called the Enhanced Fujita, or EF, scale. The tornadoes that hit portions of the Denver metro region on Sunday were significant. Many homes were damaged or ...

Tornadoes are classified on the Enhanced Fujita scale, which ranges from zero to five. It takes into account estimated wind speeds, observed damage and damage verified in weather service surveys ...

From that assessment, the tornado is given a rating on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, or the EF scale. According to the NWS Wichita Warning Coordination Meteorologist Vanessa Pearce, it has been ...