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  2. Ted Fujita - Wikipedia

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    Storm Track magazine released a special November 1998 issue, "A Tribute To Dr. Ted Fujita" [2] and Weatherwise published "Mr. Tornado: The life and career of Ted Fujita" as an article in its May/June 1999 issue. [15] He was the subject of Mr. Tornado, [16] a documentary film that originally aired on the PBS series American Experience on May 19 ...

  3. 1974 Super Outbreak - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Ted Fujita and a team of colleagues undertook a 10-month study of the 1974 Super Outbreak. Fujita initially assigned the Xenia tornado a preliminary rating of F6 intensity ± 1 scale, [28] before deeming F6 ratings "inconceivable".

  4. 1973 San Justo tornado - Wikipedia

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    The tornado left over 2000 people homeless due to the extreme house damage. Dr. Ted Fujita studied this tornado, and called it "the worst tornado ever recorded in the world outside the borders of the United States." [3] In 2018, a group of sanjustinos made a documentary film entitled Vorágine about the experience of 3 relatives of tornado ...

  5. Meet the man whose name is synonymous with tornadoes - AOL

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    Ted Fujita, seen here in April 1961, was a professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. He began teaching courses in 1962 after working as a researcher for several years. (Photo ...

  6. Weather Service report charts tornado's path through northern ...

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    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 ...

  7. 1974 Guin tornado - Wikipedia

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    The tornado would receive a rating of F5 on the Fujita scale, and was one of seven tornadoes to obtain that rating as part of the 1974 Super Outbreak. The tornado is widely believed to be one of the most violent in recorded history, and had the fastest forward speed ever recorded in a tornado, at 75 miles per hour (121 km/h).

  8. Reconstructing the storm: How meteorologists conduct tornado ...

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    The original scale is named after Dr. Ted Fujita, who developed the system to help provide a wind estimate for the amount and type of damage that a tornado can produce. In 2007, the Enhanced ...

  9. List of F4 tornadoes (1960–1969) - Wikipedia

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    The Fujita scale attempts to estimate the intensity of a tornado by classifying the damage caused to natural features and man-made structures in the tornado's path. A famous photo of an F4 tornado in the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak. Tornadoes are among the most violent known meteorological phenomena. Each year, more than 2,000 tornadoes ...