Twin States Weather Blog

Deadly Kansas Tornado Rated EF5:

* The National Weather Service in Dodge City, Kansas has given the deadly tornado that all but destroyed Greensburg, Kansas Friday night a rating of EF5... which produces winds of 200+ mph. This is the first EF5 on the new classification scale and the first "F5" rated storm since the Moore, Oklahoma tornado back in 1999.

Here is the link the that NWS Dodge City for the latest on the damage survey:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ddc/

As you may recall NOAA changed the tornado classification scale last year and it went in use back in February:


You can learn more information about the EF Scale but following this link the SPC:

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/ef-scale.html

posted by Chris Whited @ 2:41 PM