T he Enhanced Fujita Scale, love it or hate it, is our current system for rating the hundreds of tornadoes that occur each ...

FARMERSBURG, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) – We owe much to the late Dr. Ted Fujita. His scale for classifying the strength of a tornado is still used today, more than 50 years after it’s introduction.

Instead, after a tornado hits, the U.S. National Weather Service uses a rating system it adopted in 1973 called the Fujita Scale. Devised by meteorologist Theodore Fujita in 1970, the F-scale ...

He immersed himself in research on tornadoes and introduced the “Fujita Scale”, a six-point scale to classify degrees of tornado intensity.