User blog comment:SilentShadow87/What Makes an EF5 an EF5?/@comment-27987536-20170309201310

Cars can be variable. An EF3 could throw a large vehicle 100 yards. When vehicles are mangled completely beyond recognition, thrown very long distances and stripped down to their frames, or are granulated into small, unrecognizable fragments. Those are probably signs of EF5 intensity.