At an F5, tornadoes feature wind speeds that exceed 260 miles per hour, easily heaving objects as heavy as cars over 100 ...

A huge supercell was decisively moving towards the city, and the radar signature was unmistakable: an F5 category tornado, the highest on the scale, was now on its way. The tension and ...

The NWS does this by looking at damage caused and estimating the wind speeds the tornado ... F0/EF0 or F1/EF1. Violent tornadoes — those rated F4/EF4 and F5/EF5 — are much rarer.

Gilford and colleagues developed a new attribution framework to rapidly measure climate change’s influence on a recent storm’s wind speeds. Drawing from historical sea surface temperature ...

Joseph Dames joined the WCCO team during the winter of 2022. He is currently the weekend morning meteorologist. You can also catch him putting together weather, science, and other environmental ...

SUNRISE, Wash. — A bomb cyclone that developed off the coast of Washington produced high-speed wind gusts across a large swath of the Pacific Northwest, reaching from Vancouver Island to the ...

Anyone who thought wind speeds wrought by Hurricane Helene in late September were much higher than originally forecast or reported, guess what? You were right.

Two tornadoes touched down in central New Brunswick during a storm Friday, an Ontario-based research group says. Dave Sills, executive director of Western University's Northern Tornadoes Project ...

Climate change increased maximum wind speeds for every Atlantic hurricane in 2024, according to a Climate Central analysis based on new, peer-reviewed research. Human-caused global warming ...