The city of Moore was the epicenter of an EF5 tornado Monday, May 20, that decimated neighborhoods in the Oklahoma City area and took the lives of some of its citizens. Teams are still evaluating ...
But what are EF5 tornadoes, and are they different from their F5 counterparts? Here are all the available details regarding the nomenclature of the chaotic natural phenomena. Simply put ...
On Tuesday, officials at the US National Weather Service (NWS) upgraded the intensity of Monday's tornado in Moore, Oklahoma from its preliminary estimate of EF4 to EF5 - the top of the scale.
The Greenfield storm comes exactly 11 years and one day after a catastrophic tornado struck Moore, Okla. That was the last EF5 tornado on the 0-to-5 Enhanced Fujita scale to be confirmed in the ...
Oklahoma recently saw the destructive power of an EF5 tornado, but in the aftermath of the devastation, we've also been witness to the incredible resilience of the human spirit. Moore, OK resident ...
As the increasingly dangerous tornadoes rip through Silverton, Gary teams up with the storm chasers in a desperate bid to rescue his son while the town braces for a massive EF5 tornado that ...
The highest amount of damage is an EF5 tornado. A video shared from the town of Asher — just over an hour from Oklahoma City — captured terrifying shrieking from tornadoes. “It was loud!
Only one hurricane, Beulah, dropped more EF3s when it spawned eight tornadoes of that magnitude in Texas in 1967. No hurricane has ever caused an EF4 or EF5 tornado. One of the EF3 tornadoes that ...
Violent tornadoes — those rated F4/EF4 and F5/EF5 — are much rarer. Only 89 such tornadoes were reported during the same time period, accounting for 0.9% of all tornadoes. In fact, only six ...
A very active weather pattern is underway and it looks to bring the potential for significant severe weather and flash ...