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Researches found little evidence that tornadoes were getting weaker. Instead, it appears that a subjective tornado grading system is to blame.

The tornado grew in intensity. It was rated an F5 on the Fujita Scale, with winds estimated from 261 to 318 miles per hour. Hundreds of homes and nearly two dozen businesses were damaged or ...

is still the most devastating tornado in American history, that’s according to NOAA and the National Weather Service. The F5 tornado traveled more than 200 miles through Missouri, Illinois and ...

According to a NOAA database, 59 EF5/F5 tornadoes have occurred since 1950, but it has been nearly 12 years since the last event, when an EF5 devastated Moore, Oklahoma in 2013. Researchers from the ...

Tornado classifications have evolved since the original Fujita (F scale) was developed in 1971. Under the original F scale, an F5 rating was given as follows: “Whole frame houses tossed off ...

Tornadoes in the U.S. typically increase sharply in spring. Unfortunately, a few of those can be violent tornadoes, particularly in the South. On March 3, 1966, 59 years ago today, an F5 tornado ...