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Broken highway sign showing the type of “light damag” associated with the weakest tornadoes (ranking F0 on the Fujita Scale of tornado intensity). F1 tornado damage Public building shorn of its roof, the type of “considerable damage” associated with strong tornadoes (ranking F2 on the Fujita Scale of tornado intensity). F3 tornado damage Leveled home and overturned automobile, the type of “devastating damage” associated with violent tornadoes (ranking F4 on the Fujita Scale of tornado intensity). F5 tornado damage number and intensity of tornadoes in the U.S. per month
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Fujita Scale

meteorology
Also known as: F-Scale

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development by Fujita

  • In Tetsuya Fujita

    …American meteorologist who created the Fujita Scale, or F-Scale, a system of classifying tornado intensity based on damage to structures and vegetation. He also discovered macrobursts and microbursts, weather phenomena that are associated with severe thunderstorms and are hazards to aviation.

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Enhanced Fujita Scale

  • Tornado Alley
    In tornado: Tornado intensity

    …notion of developing such a scale for use in comparing events and in research was proposed in 1971 by the Japanese American meteorologist T. Theodore Fujita.

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