The 1970 Lubbock tornado linked to Fujita scale debates and Texas Tech research that later helped develop the Enhanced Fujita ...

Texas tornado history on May 11 includes Waco’s deadliest F5 tornado and Lubbock’s destructive F5 storm on the Fujita scale.

The first tornado warning was issued at around 8:30 a.m. Monday morning, hours before the worst of the storms were forecast to hit the region.

Measuring tornado winds at the ground level is notoriously difficult. Instead, meteorologists look at the damage, using on or more of 28 key indicators to determine how strong the tornado likely was ...