Each year, more than 2,000 tornadoes are recorded worldwide, with the vast majority occurring in North America and Europe. In order to assess the intensity of these events, meteorologist Ted Fujita devised a method to … See more

The tornadoes on this list have been formally rated F5 by an official government source. Unless otherwise noted, the source of the F5 rating is the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS), as shown in the archives of the … See more

• Outline of tornadoes
• Tornado intensity
• Lists of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
• List of tornadoes striking downtown areas of large cities… See more

• Bluestein, Howard B. (1999). Tornado alley: monster storms of the Great Plains. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 128–129. ISBN 978-0-19-530711-5.
• —; Snyder, Jeffrey C.; Houser, Jana B. (2015). "A Multiscal… See more