Severe Weather Awareness Week continues Wednesday with a focus on tornadoes.
Since it’s really hard to directly measure the wind inside a tornado, experts look at the damage left behind to estimate their wind speed, which is then ranked on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale. A lot of us grew up with the Fujita (F) scale, but it was enhanced and updated, which is where the “e” came from. The rankings go from EF-0 to EF-5 from weakest to strongest.
Most of the tornadoes in Nebraska and Iowa end up being ranked from EF-0 to EF-2, but we can get stronger ones. Of course, just last year, Elkhorn was hit by an EF-4 tornado…