Unfortunately, a few of those can be violent tornadoes, particularly in the South. On March 3, 1966, 59 years ago today, an ...

Thirty-five years ago, an outbreak of tornadoes ripped through Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, and Texas.

Tornado classifications have evolved since the original Fujita (F scale) was developed in 1971. Under the original F scale, an F5 rating was given as follows: “Whole frame houses tossed off ...

But what are EF5 tornadoes, and are they different from their F5 counterparts? Here are all the available details regarding the nomenclature of the chaotic natural phenomena. Simply put ...

According to a NOAA database, 59 EF5/F5 tornadoes have occurred since 1950, but it has been nearly 12 years since the last event, when an EF5 devastated Moore, Oklahoma in 2013. Researchers from the ...