A massive tornado that tore through Lubbock on May 11, 1970, killed 26 people, left more than 500 injured, and caused $100 million in damages.

Recent years have seen the addition of EFU tornadoes, for which intensity isn't known, to the Enhanced Fujita scale used to ...

By the weekend, it’s the Great Plains that will be most at risk for severe weather.

Unlike measuring size alone, the EF Scale rates tornadoes by the damage they cause, helping meteorologists and emergency ...

The weather service office in Tallahassee, Fla., which covers part of southeast Alabama, also was also sending a storm survey ...

Several people reported the small twister to the Weather Service, which issued a special weather statement, reports WISH-TV.

A tornado that hit near Bangor in the Slate Belt area of Northampton County on Tuesday afternoon made for some stunning ...

A three-minute twister damaged buildings and uprooted trees near Bangor, with roof tiles found a quarter-mile from their ...

He introduced the scale in 1971 before researchers at Texas Tech University, in the very city devastated by the 1970 storm, helped design the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale. Still, despite its ...

Decades after the Lubbock storm, researchers at Texas Tech University played a key role in developing the more accurate Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale. "NWS personnel, who are responsible for rating ...