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The National Weather Service had received at least 60 reports of tornadoes in at least five states as of 9:30 p.m. ET, making today the busiest day for tornadoes in the US in more than a year.
NWS rates the force of a tornado by wind speed and the damage it leaves behind on a scale named for meteorologist Ted Fujita and refined in 2007 as the "Enhanced Fujita" — EF — in categories ...
Severe weather, including tornadoes, will continue to press eastward across the southern United States into Thursday as a storm system intensifies, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. All modes of ...
(1:40 p.m. ET) Texas Tornado Sighted. A powerful storm system tore through residential areas outside of Houston, intensifying as it moved north from Katy through the cities of Waller, Porter ...
Severe storms battered the Midwest on Tuesday, unleashing a curtain of heavy rain, gusty winds and tornadoes throughout the region a day after a deadly twister ripped through a small Oklahoma town ...
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.
Not only may a few of the strongest storms continue to set off tornadoes in the Southeast, but storms with intense winds and torrential rain may hinder travel as far north as the mid-Atlantic ...
2024 Barnsdall–Bartlesville tornado — A large, nearly mile-wide wedge tornado produced major damage along a path of 40.8 miles (65.7 km). The tornado reached peak intensity with winds estimated up to 180 mph (290 km/h) just to the southwest of Barnsdall, where a well-built home was completely destroyed.