These tornadoes are now given the rating of EF ... The original Fujita scale is named after Dr. Ted Fujita, a University of ...

We’re in a drought of intense tornado activity right now. Disastrous years like 2011 followed by quiet periods like now—what’s up? BH: How were you influenced by working with Ted Fujita?

It replaced the original Fujita scale in 2007. Using the EF scale, the 140-mph tornado in Palm Beach County was the first EF3 on record. However, a tornado in 1958 in western Palm Beach County was ...

Tetsuya Theodore Fujita was a Japanese-American meteorologist whose research primarily focused on severe weather. His research at the University of Chicago on severe thunderstorms, tornadoes ...

NWS rates the force of a tornado by wind speed and the damage it leaves behind on a scale named for meteorologist Ted Fujita and refined in 2007 as the "Enhanced Fujita" — EF — in categories ...

The feature pays tribute to Ted Fujita, who developed the F-scale system to estimate tornado wind speeds following the 1957 Fargo tornado. A weather arcade above will use lights, sound and ...

Matt Davies, meteorologist at the National Weather Center at the University of Oklahoma, said four tornadoes hit in the early morning hours, with preliminary strengths on the Enhanced Fujita Scale ...