The Enhanced Fujita Scale provides an estimated range of a tornado's wind speeds, based on the tornado's damage.

One question you may ask yourself is how tornadoes are measured? It's with the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale which is gives a tornado a rating based ...

Instead, after a tornado hits, the U.S. National Weather Service uses a rating system it adopted in 1973 called the Fujita Scale. Devised by meteorologist Theodore Fujita in 1970, the F-scale ...

the scale takes into account estimated wind speeds, observed damage and damage verified in weather service surveys after tornadoes. The original "F-scale" was in use from the 1970s to 2007 ...

Big Picture: Tornadoes Are Rated On The Enhanced Fujita Scale They usually range from EF0 (light damage) to the rare EF5 (incredible damage), based on the most severe damage they cause along their ...