Recent years have seen the addition of EFU tornadoes, for which intensity isn't known, to the Enhanced Fujita scale used to ...

An NWS storm survey team confirmed EF-1 tornadoes hit Pensacola Beach and Warrington over Mother's Day weekend.

Unlike measuring size alone, the EF Scale rates tornadoes by the damage they cause, helping meteorologists and emergency ...

A massive tornado that tore through Lubbock on May 11, 1970, killed 26 people, left more than 500 injured, and caused $100 ...

“Counting and measuring tornadoes seems as if it would be a rather simple chore. However, it is as difficult and challenging a task as any in meteorology.” Among many themes that emerged while ...

May 11 marks a solemn double milestone in Texas weather history: the state’s deadliest tornado — and its strongest.

and the other for how it changed the science of tornado forecasting and measurement forever. Just after 4 p.m. on May 11, 1953 — the day after Mother’s Day — a monstrous tornado barreled ...