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If you mean rating a tornado on the Fujita scale (F0 to F5) or Enhanced Fujita scale (EF0 to EF5), then no.

The only real way to rate a tornado is to survey the damage after the tornado has gone through.

Although the strongest tornadoes tend to be larger this is not always the case. The Elie, Manitoba tornado of 2007, for example was relatively small looking tornado but received a rating of F5. On the other hand the Happy, Texas tornado was a huge wedge, but was only a low F2.

Furthermore the size of the funnel might not represent the size of the actual tornado. The width of a tornado is determined by examining the width of the damage path, which can extend beyond the visible funnel.

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