Imagine being jarred awake by a tornado raking through your area while you're asleep after the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend is over. That's what happened just around midnight on Nov. 28, 1988, 37 ...

Explain the Fujita scale, as it relates to death and destruction in these recent storms. -- O.S., Tulsa. Fujita scale. This tornado-classification scale was devised by Tetsuya Theodore Fujita ...

The tornado season has gone for a long and fairly quiet run, but someone has finally asked about the rating scale for tornado intensity. That is often referred to as the F scale. The F comes from a ...

COLUMBIA South Carolina's record-breaking tropical season is directly responsible for breaking another weather record. A total of 84 tornadoes touched down in the state in 2004, shattering the old ...