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F5: 261-318: Incredible damage. Strong frame houses leveled off foundations and swept away; automobile-sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 meters (109 yds); trees debarked; incredible phenomena will occur.
- Incredible Damage
Original F-scale: F5 Tornado Damage (Online Tornado FAQ)...
- Enhanced F-scale
Enhanced F Scale for Tornado Damage. An update to the the...
- Light Damage
F0 Tornado Damage (Online Tornado FAQ) Here are broken tree...
- Moderate Damage
Here, the house had no bottom anchoring at all. It was...
- Incredible Damage
1 lutego 2007 skala Fujity została zaktualizowana do Ulepszonej Skali F (Skala EF ang. Enhanced F Scale), gdzie zniszczenia podzielone są na klasy w odniesieniu do konkretnych rodzajów konstrukcji obiektów budowlanych. Pozwala to sprawniej posługiwać się nią na terenie Stanów Zjednoczonych.
Moderate tornado: 73-112 mph: The lower limit is the beginning of hurricane wind speed; peels surface off roofs; mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned; moving autos pushed off the roads; attached garages may be destroyed. F2: Significant tornado: 113-157 mph: Considerable damage.
Since the Fujita scale is based on the severity of damage resulting from high winds, a tornado exceeding F5 is an immeasurable theoretical construct. Frame-home structural damage cannot exceed total destruction and debris dispersal, which constitutes F5 damage.
The old scale lists an F5 tornado as wind speeds of 261–318 mph (420–512 km/h), while the new scale lists an EF5 as a tornado with winds above 200 mph (322 km/h), found to be sufficient to cause the damage previously ascribed to the F5 range of wind speeds.
21 gru 2022 · When it comes to measuring the intensity of tornadoes, you may have seen an "F5 tornado" referenced or an "EF5 tornado." So, what is the difference, or are they essentially the same? Let's take a closer look. The F and the EF reference the Fujita scale and the Enhanced Fujita scale (EF scale).
The scale ranks tornadoes from F0 to F5, with F0 being the least intense and F5 being the most intense. F5 tornadoes were estimated to have had maximum winds between 261 mph (420 km/h) and 318 mph (512 km/h).
