Severe storms and possible tornadoes are forecast to continue across a wide swath of the South, the Storm Prediction Center ...

This scale, implemented in 2007, categorizes tornadoes from EF0, the weakest tornadoes, to EF5, the strongest. The wind speeds are just estimates, based on damage surveys conducted by the National ...

An EF1 tornado can reach wind gust speeds between 86 and 110 mph. The tornado destroyed one outbuilding while two other ... for over a half-mile east of Jeffersonville-West Lancaster Road. The storm ...

Just four Ohio tornadoes since 1950 have received the most severe EF5 designation. The last time was May 31, 1985, when an EF5 tornado that tore through parts of Portage and Trumbull counties ...

It was these locations that felt the force of an F5 tornado. Many structures were destroyed, and some homes ... and three were EF5. One destructive EF5 tornado ripped through multiple counties ...