Fujita scale

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Fujita scale
F0	F1	F2	F3	F4	F5

The Fujita scale, is a scale used for rating tornado strength, based on the damage tornadoes cause on human-built buildings and vegetation. The official Fujita scale category is determined by meteorologists (and engineers) after a ground and/or aerial damage inspection; also including analysis of available sources such as eyewitness accounts and damage images and/or videos.

F0: Cannot possibly do any damage or kill people, but can make the power go out and be dangerous to small and light objects. (bugs, sticks, grass, stuffed animals, e.t.c.)

F1: Probably the only thing an F1 Tornado can do is lift up a car without even damaging it and uproot trees.

F2: Could rip apart a whole house like in the movie Twister.

F3: Can cut the power cords, kill at least 5 people, and destroy about 8 houses in 40 seconds.

F4: Damage to 10 houses a minute, trees uprooted.

F5: Boy, the worst tornado ever, the raging F5! 100 Dog houses carried into the air in 5 seconds flat, trees falling over top of houses and houses devastated. If you stand even 2 feet from a tornado like this, you will of course die! BEWARE THE F5 TORNADO!!!

Other F0 Rated Tornadoes:

• Dust Devil

• Waterspout

• Fire whirl(well can still burn things up)

• Steam Tornado