Storm Team 4; Fujita Scale Used to Rate Tornado Strength

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Cooler weather will be the big story today as winds pick up out of the northeast and temperatures stay in the 60s. It will remain cool over the weekend as we watch a stationary front parked to our southwest. There will be the chance for some scattered showers to develop across southern Wisconsin later tonight or Saturday, but the forecast is a bit uncertain, given the questionable position of the front. If the front sags south, we'll stay dry. If the front moves a bit north, we may see some rain. Keep up with the forecasts.

Every time a tornado hits anywhere in the United States, the National Weather Service will send a team of experts out to determine the details of the storm. On Wednesday, a team led by Rusty Kapela, the warning coordination meteorologist for the Milwaukee office of the weather service, surveyed the damage in Columbia County and determined the time, track length, width, forward speed and Fujita scale intensity of the tornado that hit the there Tuesday evening. The storm was classified as an F1 tornado.

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Storm Team 4; Fujita Scale Used to Rate Tornado Strength

The Fujita scale goes from F0 t...

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