FARMERSBURG, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) – We owe much to the late Dr. Ted Fujita. His scale for classifying the strength of a tornado is still used today, more than 50 years after it’s introduction.

This can happen in cornfields, the high-plains or in marshy areas. The original Fujita scale is named after Dr. Ted Fujita, a ...

Ted Fujita was a Japanese-American engineer turned meteorologist. He immersed himself in research on tornadoes and introduced the “Fujita Scale”, a six-point scale to classify degrees of ...

Instead, after a tornado hits, the U.S. National Weather Service uses a rating system it adopted in 1973 called the Fujita Scale. Devised by meteorologist Theodore Fujita in 1970, the F-scale ...