[Right_Handed_Writer]

Here is the SPC official explanation. I figure by the time we hit June the media will be all over the global warming my god we've had soooo many more F-5's this year story.

"New Enhanced F-Scale"

[lunarbicep]

I figure by the time we hit June the media will be all over the global warming my god we've had soooo many more F-5's this year story.

rest assured it's coming

[janetjanet998]

There will NOT be any more F5's then the old system..all they did was lower the wind scale for ALL of the old system..the old fugita scale was based on damage NOT wind Speed...the wind speed was estimated from the damage to structures at the time(1950's)

Now we know its doesn't take a 300 MPH wind to leave nothing but a foundation of a house(with all debris swepted away) it only takes a 200+ MPH wind...

That being said monsters like the OKC tornado with its high wind speed recorded or the even stronger xenia ohio tornado in 1974 would be "off the charts" under the new systems...