Recent years have seen the addition of EFU tornadoes, for which intensity isn't known, to the Enhanced Fujita scale used to ...

A massive tornado that tore through Lubbock on May 11, 1970, killed 26 people, left more than 500 injured, and caused $100 million in damages.

A landspout tornado touched down Tuesday in open fields east of an central Indiana town, the National Weather Service says.

May 11 marks a solemn double milestone in Texas weather history: the state’s deadliest tornado — and its strongest.

A landspout tornado that touched down Tuesday evening in Randolph County will count as the 47th tornado to touch down in ...

Unlike measuring size alone, the EF Scale rates tornadoes by the damage they cause, helping meteorologists and emergency ...

The weather service office in Tallahassee, Fla., which covers part of southeast Alabama, also said it plans to send a storm ...

A tornado that hit near Bangor in the Slate Belt area of Northampton County on Tuesday afternoon made for some stunning ...

A three-minute twister damaged buildings and uprooted trees near Bangor, with roof tiles found a quarter-mile from their ...

No injuries reported as brief tornadoes touched down near Blue Marsh Lake and between Mohrsville and Shoemakersville, with ...

Decades after the Lubbock storm, researchers at Texas Tech University played a key role in developing the more accurate Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale. "NWS personnel, who are responsible for rating ...

He introduced the scale in 1971 before researchers at Texas Tech University, in the very city devastated by the 1970 storm, helped design the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale. Still, despite its ...