T​ornadoes in the U.S. typically increase sharply in spring.​ Unfortunately, a few of those can be violent tornadoes, ...

"It’s likely that several of these tornadoes would have been rated F5 using the legacy Fujita scale." Thus, the lack of EF5-rated tornadoes in the past decade is "less due to a weakening of ...

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 ...

Basically, most buildings would be blown away by EF4 tornadoes, so there are few left standing to encounter EF5 damage. What's the difference between the old F5 damage and current EF5 damage?

Tornadoes in the U.S. typically increase sharply in spring. Unfortunately, a few of those can be violent tornadoes, particularly in the South. On March 3, 1966, 59 years ago today, an F5 tornado ...