On May 4, 2007, Greensburg, Kansas, was nearly wiped off the map by the first-ever tornado officially rated EF5 under the Enhanced Fujita scale. With winds reaching 205 mph and a path wider than ...

Cecil Cornish, one of the survivors of the EF5 tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, in 2011, says he has received several messages from supporters since the release of the Netflix documentary ...

Opening Shot: News footage of the massive EF5 tornado that touched down in Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011. The Gist: The first episode of Survival Mode is about the EF5 tornado in Joplin that ...

A 2021 study found that nearly a quarter of all tornadoes contain winds in the EF4 or EF5 range - greater than 165 mph. In reality, less than 1 percent of tornadoes earn "violent" EF4 or EF5 ratings.

The single worst tornado outbreak in Western Pennsylvania’s history. 16 tornadoes on our side of the state. Four of them, EF4s and the only ever recorded EF5 in Pennsylvania, ravaged much of ...

On May 22, 2011 in Joplin, Mo. an EF5 tornado destroyed much of the city and killed 161 people. Ten years later, we remember that date. Photos by Robert Cohen, ...