Tornadoes are rated on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale. It is an upgraded version of the Fujita (F) scale.
it is called the fujita scale
fujita scale now called enhanced fujita scale
The Enhanced Fujita Scale rates the strength of a Tornado by the damage it has caused!
The scale used to identify the severity of a tornado is called the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale. It ranges from EF0 (weakest) to EF5 (strongest) based on the tornado's estimated wind speeds and resultant damage.
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The most powerful category of tornado is F5 on the Fujita scale or EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
Its called the enhanced fujita scale...it measures from an EF0 to an EF5 how fast the tornado was spinning. The wind speed is determined by examining damage.
Level 5 on the Fujita scale, properly called F5, is the highest rating a tornado can attain on that scale. It indicates an extremely violent tornado that will wipe well built houses clean off their foundations.
EF means "Enhanced Fujita" referring to the scale that is used, called the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
There are what can be called Pearson numbers that can be used to rate a tornado's width and the distance it travels, but these are rarely used. In most cases a tornado's width is measured in yards or, if it is a very large tornado, in miles and fractions of a mile (meters and kilometers if you prefer the metric scale).
The Fujita scale is named after Tetsuya Theodore Fujita, a Japanese-American meteorologist who developed the scale in the early 1970s to classify tornado intensity based on damage assessments. He made significant contributions to tornado research and severe weather studies during his career.
The Waco tornado was an F5.