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What does tornado rated mean?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

A tornado's rating is an assessment of its intensity on the Enhanced Fujita scale. Damage is analyzed to give an estimate of the tornado's peak wind speed, which is then used to assign it a rating ranging from EF0 for the weakest tornadoes to EF5 for the strongest tornadoes

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