A lead forecaster with the National Weather Service branch in Louisville told LEX18 the path to determine a tornado's rating ...

(KWCH) - The National Weather Service in Goodland has rated the powerful storm that heavily damaged much of the town of Grinnell in Gove County Sunday night as an EF2 tornado. Although that rating ...

The National Weather Service has determined that the family of tornadoes that tore through south-central Kansas on Sunday night were all rated EF3s on the Enhanced Fujita scale. Five main ...

Each of these tornadoes were surveyed ... “The idea of the EF5 rating is that your house sustained catastrophic damage,” Nowotarski explained. “At some point, your house is already knocked ...

For many of the people who attended the standing-room-only discussion of the 40th anniversary of the May 31, 1985, tornado ...

Pearce explained. “Are they homes that were ... Teams from the NWS are still in Plevna, where another significant tornado occurred, but no rating has been released yet for that area.

What was its rating? The tornado’s path on the ground was 22 ... deaths that added up to or even beyond 162 deaths, Runnels explained. An NWS Central Region Service Assessment of the Joplin ...

It had pulled it away from the wall," she explained. "My husband and I got ... to conduct "a complete survey in order to give the tornado a rating," which is expected to happen Tuesday.

The ratings of two other confirmed tornadoes on the Eastern Plains remain unknown, NWS meteorologist David Barjenbruch said. All four tornadoes hit between 1 and 2 p.m. Sunday. EF2 tornadoes reach ...

EF3 tornadoes harbor winds of 136 mph to 165 mph. Assigning ratings can be challenging when strong tornadoes pass through sparsely populated areas. Unless a tornado hits a well-constructed ...