This Week in History: South Carolina tornadoes of March 1998

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A severe weather outbreak occurred on March 8 of 1998 across portions of the southeast with the ...
Tulsa World

Only 1 percent of tornadoes are F4s or F5s

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 ...
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On Today's Date: An F4 Tornado Roared Through Raleigh

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 ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

F scale measures damage wrought by tornado

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 ...