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F-scale

* Fujita's initial wind speed estimates have since been found to be highly inaccurate. See Enhanced Fujita Scale

Since the Fujita scale is based on the severity of damage resulting from high winds, an F6 tornado is a purely theoretical construct. Property damage cannot exceed total destruction, which constitutes an F5. (A tornado with windspeeds greater than 319 miles per hour is theoretically possible, and the 1999 Oklahoma City tornado may have been such an event. However, no such wind speed has ever been recorded and that measurement was not near ground level.)

EF-scale

Damage indicators and degrees of damage
The EF scale currently has 28 damage indicators (DI), or types of structures and vegetation, each with a varying number of degrees of damage (DoD). Larger degrees of damage done to the damage indicators correspond to higher wind speeds. The links in the right column of the following table describe the degrees of damage for the damage indicators listed in each row.

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