There is no such thing as an F6 tornado, even though Ted Fujita plotted out F6-level winds.
As fortunate (and as horrible) as it would be to successfully ride out an EF5, imagine if you will surviving a tornado packing Mach 1 winds! No, the original Fujita scale went to F5. extremely rare... [... because F6 or stronger tornadoes are not expected to occur on the A 250 mph hurricane (!) Fujita himself thought it deserved an F6 rating. Stack Exchange network consists of 177 Q&A communities including Tim Marshall has also shown this in numerous conference and professional papers. The winds in the May 3rd 1999 tornado were measured at 318 mph, not 319... and were measured some distance up in the tornado, thus the actual surface wind speeds were somewhat lower than that, still making it a strong F5, but still not that elusive F6.Ugh, I hate to reference TWC's Storm Stories for this, but that one May 3rd 1999 one is played so much. But when you get right down to it, is there any real difference between 300 mph winds versus 320 mph winds? Fujita stated an F6 is inconceivable but nobody said it was impossible.
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Some damage to chimneys; branches broken off trees; shallow-rooted trees pushed over; sign boards damaged.
Can anyone help with this??? would still be a category 5. Such tornadoes are very rare to encounter. It is probably best to think of an F-rating in terms of damage rather than wind speed. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top In reality, there is no such thing as an F6 tornado. Who knows what the future will bring, tho. However actual ratings are based on damage, and since F5 winds leave complete destruction, there is no room or use for a higher category.
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Such a chart became possible only after the acceptance of the Fujita Scale as the official classification system for tornado damage. Roofs and some walls torn off well-constructed houses; trains overturned; most trees in forests uprooted; heavy cars lifted off the ground and thrown. Brandenburg, Kentucky April 3, 1974 Multiple well-built, anchor bolted homes were swept away, including one that sustained total collapse of its poured concrete walk-out basement wall. The lower limit is the beginning of hurricane wind speed; peels surface off roofs; mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned; moving vehicles pushed off the roads; attached garages may be destroyed. site design / logo © 2020 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under A BBC textbook on understanding weather states that during the May 3rd 1999 outbreak in central Oklahoma their was an F6 tornado in that outbreak where as I have heard Meteorologists state that thier has never been an F6 tornado.
On the rare occasions when tornadoes have struck downtown areas (Lubbock, Topeka, Ft. Worth, etc.) So why is it that the tiny plastic portable tornado toy has it's Fujita scale stop at F5 with 261-318 mph? It seems very odd, and unlikely for cows to actually have there lungs and skin ripped off...but anything is possible, that's sad, however.
RE: Has there ever been an F6 tornado? Nice insight, and do stay safe –“An F6 Tornado (EF6) is Becoming More and More Likely To Be Confirmed ..”
There is no such thing as an F6 tornado. The Fujita scale was applied retroactively to tornadoes reported between 1950 and 1972 in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Tornado Database. The last time I checked Howard Bluestein had captured the fastest wind on record F5 speed for sure but is this information still up to date?