Stuart Robinson
EF5
I wanted to open a debate (not a can of worms) on the American F-Scale Vs the European TF-Scale. As some of you may know over in Europe we rate our tornados on the 10 point TF-scale (Meaden 1975) as apposed to the 5 point F-Scale (Fujita 1971).
Could you take some time to read the following slide show that was presented to the 2004 European Conference on Severe Storms.
http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/ECSS_Slide_S...ide%20show.html
And some further background to the TF-Scale can be found here
http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/severeweathe...scaleorigin.php
http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/severeweather/tscale.php
I suppose that my question is? Is it now time to re think the F-Scale and would the US ever adopt the TF-Scale.
I should point out that I am a Executive member of TORRO (I hold the electronic records for the UK Tornado database) Therefore I am biased towards the TF-Scale.
Could you take some time to read the following slide show that was presented to the 2004 European Conference on Severe Storms.
http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/ECSS_Slide_S...ide%20show.html
And some further background to the TF-Scale can be found here
http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/severeweathe...scaleorigin.php
http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/severeweather/tscale.php
I suppose that my question is? Is it now time to re think the F-Scale and would the US ever adopt the TF-Scale.
I should point out that I am a Executive member of TORRO (I hold the electronic records for the UK Tornado database) Therefore I am biased towards the TF-Scale.