Simply put, the EF5 tornadoes featured in Twisters and the F5 ones differ on the scale they are categorized on. The Fujita scale, introduced by meteorologist Dr. Tetsuya Theodore Fujita in the ...

Twister and its sequel, Twisters, both feature a variety of different tornadoes that all showcase the terrifying range of destructive power present in these fearsome events of inclement weather.

But the first tornado that I ever saw – the one that prompted my childhood phobia of severe storms – was the frightening F5 behemoth shown in the opening scene of the 1996 blockbuster “Twister.” My ...

It’s still only spring, but tornadoes have already killed more than 500 people in the United States this year. During an average year, tornadoes kill about 80 Americans and injure another ...

The twister was the first confirmed February tornado in the county on record, the weather service said. Only 12 tornadoes have been recorded in February in the Morristown office's coverage area ...

It hit on April 16, 2011 – North Carolina’s worst tornado outbreak in the past decade. Forty-seven twisters spun across the state that day, from Rowan County, just outside of Charlotte ...

A new instalment, Twisters, arrives 28 years after de Bont ... after enduring a devastating personal loss in the path of an F5 tornado during her college days. She runs from her guilt as far ...