According to the National Weather Service, the tornado that struck Rome on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, was an EF2 category ...

The Deer Creek Fire had already burned several thousand acres just north of La Sal on Saturday when the column of flames and ...

Instead, meteorologists rely on a set of wind estimates based on damage to rate tornadoes. Tornadoes are ranked on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale which goes from EF-0 to EF-5.

Source: WKRN. The maximum wind speed of 60 mph was the lowest that any of the News 2 meteorologists have seen within a tornado. So, the Weather Authority team asked about it.

When the NWS sends a crew to survey damage is to determine if it was truly from a tornado or just thunderstorm wind. They do this by looking at the direction of fallen trees and debris.

(The Conversation) – Extremely powerful winds swept across a large part of the U.S. on Dec. 15, 2021, hitting several states with hurricane-force gusts. Record temperatures helped generate ...

The tornado came close to a wind farm in Peetz, about 25 miles north of Sterling. Viewer video sent to 9NEWS showed the tornado moving across fields and coming dangerously close to the wind farm.

He said he got the tornado warning right as the wind began to blow hard. The tornado took down two trees but did not damage the house. He said he was lucky.“I was outside looking,” Gardner said.

More than 1,000 tornadoes occur nationwide in an average year, with April, May and June typically the peak months for twisters. While climate change is known to make some extreme weather ...

A tornado warning was issued for parts of Volusia County on Monday morning as bands of showers and storms, with the potential for damaging wind gusts of 40-60 mph, are pushing through Daytona ...