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Indiana Department of Natural Resources is seeking volunteers for cleanup efforts after an EF-3 tornado ripped through McCormick's Creek State Park.

Tornadoes are some of the most destructive storms on the planet. Rating them is complicated and uses a scale applied to the storms' aftermath.

The National Weather Service out of Nashville has had meteorologists in storm battered portions of Middle Tennessee, surveying damage. The preliminary damage survey for the Saturday morning storm that hit Rutherford County was completed late Sunday afternoon. They report damage was from a tornado, which entered Rutherford County around Eagleville as an EF-1 and then lifted while the storm continued onto the other side of I-24. The tornado then recycled, growing into an EF-2 tornado with 130 mph ...

With winds of 185 mph, the tornado that occurred on April 5, 2022 in Bryan County, Ga. was the strongest in 2022.

With winds of 185 mph, the tornado that occurred on April 5, 2022 in Bryan County, Ga. was the strongest in 2022.

Friday there was severe weather in Maryland. National Weather Service has a specific surveying process to measure the wind speeds of a possibly tornadic storm.

What is the Enhanced Fajita Scale, how is it used, and why was it created

Adequate safe rooms or shelters to protect the children. and they do have them installed in many parts of the state. just so happens they do not have them at the tower plaza school or briarwood at this point either. we told you that the tornado was now considered an ef-5. it made us think about how does the national weather service make that determination, especially after the tornado has already come through? i want to bring in the weather channels mike seidel for insight on this. its fascinati...

We have a 28 damage indicators. we look at hotels, motels if they are damaged. multistory complexes. even gas station canopies. and as far as a home goes, a single or multifamily home, 1,000 to 5,000 square feet is on the chart and they look at various degrees of damage. if that home is completely gone, a total loss, its gone down to the slab, the winds generally about 170 miles an hour. if houses were blown off their slabs, immediately thats ef-4 damage. to get to an ef-5 you have to have signi...

Power of the tornado. might it get upgraded to a five? and give us a little insight into the scale. we had melissa with us onset who said they didnt even have up to a five back in 1999. >> well, the thing about it is, in 1999 tornado came through moore, oklahoma. they did, in fact, they actually measured winds, over 300 miles an hour with that particular tornado. we dont believe we had actual measurements with doppler radar on this one. but what theyll do is storm survey teams will come in here ...