Tornadoes cause a lot of damage as well as devastation. There is no accurate way to measure the wind speeds near or even in a tornado. Because tornadoes are fairly small storms and it isn’t easy to predict their touchdowns, getting meteorological instruments into or near a tornado is neither practical nor safe. Although storm chasers hypothesize the intensity of most tornadoes based on the strength, the size of the tornado, and how fast debris appears to be traveling through the air, there is no exact way to prove that they are merely correct.

Although we can not be positively sure, there is one way that meteorologists can tell how much damage a coming tornado will cause. This is done by using the F-Scale, or the Fujita Scale. In the early 70’s, the F-Scale was introduced by a man named Tetsuya T. Fujita. The F-scale describes different levels of damage caused by a tornado by estimating the wind speeds of it

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