TORNADO CLASSIFICATION |
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| by Ted Peterson |
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| People see in the paper or on TV, talk about the wind speed of tornados. They see a listing of maybe this tornado is #2 tornado and most people would like to know what this means. |
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| Ted Fujita, Ph.D., from the University of Chicago set up a scale to use when a person talked about tornados. It is called the Fujita Scale. |
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| FUJITA SCALE for TORNADOS |
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| #0 40-72 miles per hour and light damage. |
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| #1 73-112 miles per hour with moderate damage. |
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| #2 113-157 miles per hour with considerable damage. |
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| #3 158-206 miles per hour with severe damage. |
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| #4 207-260 miles per hour with devastating damage. |
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| #5 261-318 miles per hour with incredible damage. |
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| This scale do not list a number 6 or better. NO wind has ever when up past a #5. If it does there would not be any thing standing. |
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| The tornados that go over water use the same scale. They have a large number of different names. Some are called Hurricanes, Typhoons, etc. They are all listed under the clastifaction of Cyclones. We call them by the other names just to be able to tell where they are. |
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