A strong EF-3 tornado ripped apart Selmer, Tennessee early last month, creating millions in damages that could take up to a ...

Damage from the tornado was estimated to be anywhere between $250 and $500 million, with nearly 300 homes completely ...

In today’s modern rate, it would have been about a billion dollars worth of damage. At the time, it was the costliest tornado in history. Now it’s the Joplin tornado, which caused $3 billion worth of ...

The most destructive storm on the Enhanced Fujita scale is an EF5 tornado. These storms can completely destroy almost anything in their path, such as the high school seen in The Twister ...

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 ...

The extent of the devastation was unparalleled, with countless homes and neighborhoods either partially or destroyed ... the afternoon period, the EF5 and EF4 tornadoes tore through communities.

Netflix's brand-new documentary, The Twister: Caught in the Storm, captures the true story of the category EF5 ... Joplin tornado. An estimated 553 buildings were either damaged or destroyed ...