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If you do something that cool in life, your grave stone is likely to be this cool after life. charles francis richter, he made the scale that determined the earthquakes. and this japanese researcher, mr. fujita, is the f in the ef-scale. when the tornado touches down, that is rated on the fujita scale. it gives us an idea of how bad the disaster is, one versus five, how seriously we need to react, and how to rank that disaster against the others. i always thought the granddaddy of the scales was...

Scientific method once widely used to determine how strong the earthquake is, 8.3 on the richter scale, right? if you do something that cool in life, your grave stone is likely to be this cool after life. charles francis richter, he made the scale that determined the earthquakes. and this japanese researcher, mr. fujita, is the f in the ef-scale. when the tornado touches down, that is rated on the fujita scale. it gives us an idea of how bad the disaster is, one versus five, how seriously we nee...

Felt that they were at the same level of what i felt in the moore tornado. the ef scale rates tornadoes based on the damage that they cause, not the actual winds themselves in most cases, so we may never know how strong the winds actually were in this tornado, but in my opinion, the winds with this storm were at or above the level of what i experienced in the moore tornado. >> matt, you have taken the season off because youve got a young child. it does raise this question which im sure a lot of ...

Days ago, in terms of power, it wasnt quite as powerful but clearly from what people are telling me, including yourself that night, it was a pretty awesome tornado, wasnt it? >> yes, piers. from the winds that we felt, i felt that they were at the same level of what i felt in the moore tornado. the ef scale rates tornadoes based on the damage that they cause, not the actual winds themselves in most cases, so we may never know how strong the winds actually were in this tornado, but in my opinion,...

Level of what i felt in the moore tornado. the ef scale rates tornadoes based on the damage that they cause, not the actual winds themselves in most cases, so we may never know how strong the winds actually were in this tornado, but in my opinion, the winds with this storm were at or above the level of what i experienced in the moore tornado. >> matt, you have taken the season off because youve got a young child. it does raise this question which im sure a lot of people are thinking about the fa...

Were in the hook echo part of this storm which means that the big hail is to our north. the rotation around the backside is coming into it. and now that is -- that is what i consider to be a large wedge tornado on the ground, multiple tornadoes. it almost looks like there is more than one tornado on the ground. it will combine to be one large tornado and probably now you know moving on up the ef scale. ef-1 and 2. the more we see these come together, there is going to be one large wedge. and tha...

With damage assessment. its definitely going to be on the high ef scale, greater than ef-3. you know, i hadnt toured all the city. i saw massive damage in shopping centers, i wouldnt be surprised to get ef-4. i would hold off going any higher at this point until the official damage assessment tomorrow. >> were looking at pictures you yourself have taken as youve been driving around. fairly apocalyptic even there. these are live pictures, actually, i have just been told. so this is right now in t...

States and around the world for live breaking news coverage of the devastating tornado in oklahoma. >> coming up this hour, we have right now it is midnight in oklahoma. you are now looking at pictures. the search, the rescue, and it is the somber recovery that is going on all night long in moore, oklahoma. it has now been nine hours since disaster struck. a bulls eye of utter destruction right in the heart of tornado alley. so many people in oklahoma have lost so much, specifically, oklahoma ci...

Tornado before. so it wasnt just that this had never happened before. it was that it had never been measured before. it was, indeed, the strongest winds ever measured because this technology had just come into existence. now unless they were out doing an experiment, we may not have this technology applied to this tornado. we may not know. on the scale, what we call now the enhanced fujita scale, the ef scale, the highest category is this 5, ef-5 level, and the estimate for ef-5 is 260 mile per h...

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