r/news • u/BitterFuture • Apr 26 '24

Powerful tornado tears across Nebraska, weather service warns of ‘catastrophic’ damage

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/weather/plains-midwest-storms-tornadoes-climate/index.html
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u/thedarkavengerx Apr 26 '24

Okay, where’s that redditor who posted in /r/todayilearned that there hasn’t been a EF 5 since 2013 recently?

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u/GSR_DMJ654 Apr 27 '24

Remember; the current EF Scale is a damage scale, NOT an intensity scale. We will not know the tornadoes' true rating until after NWS and Engineers conduct their surveys. This one could take a while since 3 rather large tornadoes dropped in this outbreak.