The Classification of Tornadoes

<BODY text="#000066" link="blue" vlink="purple" alink="red" background="index28.gif"> <A NAME="pgtop"></A> <A HREF="indexc.htm"><Img Src="flconts.gif" ALT="Table of Contents" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <A HREF="index27.htm"><Img Src="fllarrow.gif" ALT="Previous" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <A HREF="index29.htm"><Img Src="flrarrow.gif" ALT="Next" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <BR> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH="100%"><TR> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH="100%"> <TR><TD COLSPAN=0 HEIGHT=45><br></TD></TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH=25 HEIGHT=26><br></td> <TD WIDTH=393 HEIGHT=26 align="center" valign="bottom" > <B><FONT face="Arial"><FONT color="#FFFF00"><FONT size="+2">The Classification of Tornadoes</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD COLSPAN=0><SPACER type="horizontal" size=135><br></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH="100%"> <TR><TD COLSPAN=0 HEIGHT=20><br></TD></TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH=21 HEIGHT=199><br></td> <TD WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=199 align="left" valign="top" > <B><FONT face="Arial"><FONT color="#FFFFFF"><FONT size="+0">Ted Fujita, a meteorologist who was active in tornado meteorology research from the 1950s through the 1980s, created a system for categorizing tornadoes by the damage they do. This has recently been modified into the </B></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial"><FONT color="#FFFFFF"><FONT size="+0">enhanced Fujita scale</FONT></FONT></FONT><B><FONT face="Arial"><FONT color="#FFFFFF"><FONT size="+0">. </B></FONT></FONT></FONT><B><FONT face="Arial"><FONT color="#FFFFFF"><FONT size="+0">We will go into more detail about this in Lesson 7. Here is a brief introduction:<BR> </B></FONT></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD COLSPAN=0><SPACER type="horizontal" size=132><br></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> <TR><TD COLSPAN=0 HEIGHT=52><br></TD></TR> </TABLE> <HR ALIGN="left" size=5 WIDTH="65%"> <A NAME="pgbot"></A> <BR> <FONT SIZE="-2">Published by <A HREF="http://www.lotus.com">Lotus</A>® <A HREF="http://www.lotus.com/freelance">Freelance Graphics</A>®</FONT> </BODY>