A gale is a low pressure system (a large, rotating storm system) that takes place outside the tropics and has winds of 39-54 mph.
A gale tornado or F0 tornado, is the weakest category of tornado that breaks tree limbs, peals peels of shingles and takes down gutters.
An F5 tornado is is the strongest category of tornado with winds that can exceed 300 mph. These tornadoes can tear houses clean off their foundations, destroy reinforced concrete structures, strip trees of their bark, and rip the asphalt from roads.
In short, an F5 is far more powerful.
There are theoretical categories beyond F5 but none of theme have ever been used. Since F5 damage is total destruction there is no real way of rating a tornado higher than F5. Also, a tornado's rating is not dependent on its size. So a bigger tornado does not necessarily get a higher rating.
No. There have been no F5 tornadoes recorded in or near Ada.
An F5 can destroy anything and everything in its path, wiping houses clean of their foundations. In some cases entire towns can be destroyed.
In most cases an F1 tornado does not have that much energy and soon runs out and is more easily disrupted, though a few F1 tornadoes have had long damage paths. By contrast an F5 tornado will generally have several orders of magnitude more energy to release. Additionally, such a strong tornado could be considered more robust. A shift in the parent storm that might cut can F1 tornado's lifespan and thus damage path short, while the same shift might only weaken an F5 tornado somewhat.
All the tornadoes depicted in Twister were fictional. The F5 in the 1969 opening sequence was not stated to hit Wakita and was likely set somewhere east of Hennessy. The town of Wakita has never been hit by a tornado
It is unlikely. There has never been a recorded F5 tornado in Colorado.
No. Florida has never recorded an F5 or EF5 tornado.
Tornadoes fluctuate in intensity. An F5 tornado is only at F5 strength for part of the time it is on the ground.
The most recent F5/EF5 tornado was the Moore, Oklahoma tornado of May 20, 2013.
The rarest rating for a tornado is F5.
The Waco tornado was an F5.
No. There has never been an F5 tornado recorded in Colorado. It has had a handful of F4 tornadoes.
Any tornado can be dangerous. An F5 tornado is extremely dangerous. Hit by the full force of an F5 tornado, even the strongest houses will be swept away. Many F5 tornadoes are quite large, capable of leveling whole neighborhoods and killing dozens in a matter of minutes.
To date there have been no F5 tornadoes in the Freedom area since 1950. If you are referring to the 1984 tornado, it was an F4.
F4 and F5 are the two strongest categories of tornado on the Fujita scale. A damage based scale which rates tornadoes from F0 to F5. An F4 tornado will reduce most houses to piles of rubble. An F5 tornado will completely annihilate almost any house and wipe it clean off its foundation. Winds in an F5 can exceed 300 mph.
F5 is the strongest category of tornado which rates tornadoes from F0 to F5 based on damage. An F5 tornado can sweep a house clean off its foundation.
No, there is not