There hadn’t been an EF5 — the most intense on the five-point Enhanced Fujita Scale — anywhere on the planet for more than 12 years, dating back to an Oklahoma tornado on May 20, 2013. And then on ...

About 25 young students and teachers were huddled inside a North Carolina elementary school while a tornado ripped through, and footage shows the 125 mph winds battering the building. Surveillance ...

EF5 tornadoes, which are the highest level on the Enhanced Fujita Scale used to determine tornado strength, carry winds of at least 201 mph. Tornadoes of this magnitude are a rarity. Only 60 tornadoes ...

Experts reassessed the damage from a tornado that left three people dead in June, and gave it the strongest possible rating on the tornado scale.