[300magnum]

They arent going by just assumed windspeeds anymore. THe actual EF scale is tougher to attain an EF-5 because you have to hit a lot more damage indicators.

Was the title of this thread "EF5 tornado wipes out..." or was it "F5 tornado wipes out...."

The media and the left are going to use this new scale to push their global warming/Kyoto agenda.

[aft_lizard]

I don’t see how they can. This doesnt even touch the largest outbreak, or largest swath of damage. I will wait and see, the general sense I get from meteorologists is that they aren’t the global warming alarmists that other groups are.

[Psycho_Bunny]

lol....Not everything is a Global Warming Conspiracy.  Idiots will probably try but that has nothing to do with the actual scale itself.

Frankly, the new scale works against Warmingists.  This tornado was an EF5 partly because it was around 1.4 miles wide.  Had it been .4 miles wide, it would likely have been categorized an EF4.

Under the old Fujita scale, it would have probably been a 5 either way.