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Wind speed alone is not enough to determine the intensity of a tornado. [3] An EF0 tornado may damage trees and peel some shingles off roofs, while an EF5 tornado can rip well-anchored homes off their foundations, leaving them bare— even deforming large skyscrapers.
The old scale lists an F5 tornado as wind speeds of 261–318 mph (420–512 km/h), while the new scale lists an EF5 as a tornado with winds above 200 mph (322 km/h), found to be sufficient to cause the damage previously ascribed to the F5 range of wind speeds.
But he said the wind speed gauge used was 250 metres lower and in an area that was more protected from gales. Ridge tiles from a house landed on this car just three weeks old [Anand Patel]
From these wind speed numbers, qualitative descriptions of damage were made for each category of the Fujita scale, and then these descriptions were used to classify tornadoes. [ 9 ] At the time Fujita derived the scale, little information was available on damage caused by wind, so the original scale presented little more than educated guesses ...
The state increased performance criteria for wind-load provisions and adopted new wind provisions from the American Society of Civil Engineers. One important addition to the new code was the requirement of missile-impact resisting glass , which can withstand high-velocity impact from wind-borne debris during a hurricane.
If you don't own your home, a renters' insurance policy will typically cover your belongings inside the dwelling in the case of damage caused by a weather-related event including hail and wind ...
A new national wind speed record of 195.8 kilometers per hour (121.7 miles per hour) was recorded locally early Thursday on the island of Soemma, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute said.
A house suffered major roof damage and had one of its exterior walls blown out, while a wooden 2x4 was speared through the front wall of another house that had its windows shattered. Several other homes sustained minor roof shingle damage, a power pole was snapped, and a metal storage shed was lofted and thrown. [72] EF0 Harkers Island (2nd ...