The original Fujita Scale was decommissioned in 2007. The basic concept of the Enhanced Fujita Scale is the same as the original Fujita Scale developed in the early 1970s.

CLEVELAND - The strength of tornadoes today is measured using the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Dr. Tetsuya Theodore Fujita from the University of Chicago put together the first scale used in 1971 ...

The National Weather Service categorizes tornadoes by a number rating, from zero to five, after assessing the twister's inflicted damage according to the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

The National Weather Service uses the Enhanced Fujita Scale, or EF-Scale, to assign a tornado a 'rating' based on estimated wind speeds and related damage.The Enhanced Fujita Scale - which ...

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 ...

According to the National Weather Service, the tornado that struck Rome on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, was an EF2 category ...

The National Weather Service uses the Enhanced Fujita Scale, or EF-Scale, to assign a tornado a 'rating' based on estimated wind speeds and related damage.The Enhanced Fujita Scale - which ...

The National Weather Service uses the Enhanced Fujita Scale, or EF-Scale, to assign a tornado a 'rating' based on estimated wind speeds and related damage.The Enhanced Fujita Scale - which ...

Since its inception in 2007, the Enhanced Fujita Scale no longer depends solely on wind speeds to determine the strength of a tornado. The last recorded EF-5 tornado was observed in Moore ...

The National Weather Service uses the Enhanced Fujita Scale, or EF-Scale, to assign a tornado a 'rating' based on estimated wind speeds and related damage.The Enhanced Fujita Scale - which ...

The Enhanced Fujita Scale was developed and implemented in 2007 to help meteorologists to assign ratings to tornados using an increased amount of detail that its predecessor, the Fujita (F) Scale. The ...

At first, the storm was rated an EF-4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. Since then, it has been upgraded to an EF-5, the highest ranking on the scale. The is the the 59th level 5 storm in the past 63 ...