Tornado safety is more important than ever as we head into the summer months. Here are some tornado myths to avoid—and the ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — April 10, 1929, was the day the only documented F5 tornado occurred in Arkansas. It stretched from southern Batesville to north of Swifton and southern Alicia.

Since tornadoes started to be tracked reliably in 1953, a total of 71 twisters have touched down in Bexar County. Here are ...

Grazulis believes Worcester was probably an F5, although it is officially ranked as an F4 by SPC. In the early 1970s, Grazulis collected early tornado footage to create the world’s first ...

One particularly long-tracked and devastating tornado hit the major cities of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama, killing ...

which rated tornadoes from F0 to F5, based on estimated wind speeds and observed damage. Then, in 2007, the weather service adopted the Enhanced Fujita scale, which better reflected actual storm ...

Of the 10 tornadoes that touched down during this event, five were extremely intense and long-lived F4 and F5 tornadoes. Of the five violent tornadoes that day, three had an F5 rating, meaning ...

Violent tornadoes — those rated F4/EF4 and F5/EF5 — are much rarer. Only 89 such tornadoes were reported during the same time period, accounting for 0.9% of all tornadoes. In fact, only six ...