Tornado Intensity Estimation: Past, Present, and Future

Author:

Edwards Roger1,LaDue James G.2,Ferree John T.3,Scharfenberg Kevin4,Maier Chris4,Coulbourne William L.5

Affiliation:

1. NWS Storm Prediction Center, Norman, Oklahoma

2. NWS Warning Decision Training Branch, Norman, Oklahoma

3. NWS Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services, Norman, Oklahoma

4. NWS Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services, Silver Spring, Maryland

5. Applied Technology Council, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Abstract

During the early to middle 2000s, in response to demand for more detail in wind damage surveying and recordkeeping, a team of atmospheric scientists and wind engineers developed the enhanced Fujita (EF) scale. The EF scale, codified officially into National Weather Service (NWS) use in February 2007, offers wind speed estimates for a range of degrees of damage (DoDs) across each of 28 damage indicators (DIs). In practice, this has increased precision of damage surveys for tornado and thunderstorm-wind events. Still, concerns remain about both the representativeness of DoDs and the sufficiency of DIs, including the following: How dependable are the wind speed ranges for certain DoDs? What other DIs can be included? How can recent advances in mapping and documentation tools be integrated into the surveying process and the storm records? What changes should be made to the existing scale: why, how, and by whom? What alternative methods may be included or adapted for estimating tornado intensity? To begin coordinated discussion on these and related topics, interested scientists and engineers (including some involved in EF scale development) organized a national EF Scale Stakeholders' Meeting, held on 2–3 March 2010 in Norman, Oklahoma. This article presents more detailed background information, summarizes the meeting, presents possibilities for the future of the EF scale and damage surveys, and solicits ideas from the engineering and atmospheric science communities.

Publisher

American Meteorological Society

Subject

Atmospheric Science

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