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How do you measure tornado strength?

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The strength of a tornado is measured by how severe the damage is causes is. This can be used to estimate its wind speed.
This wind speed estimate is used to rate it on the Enhanced Fujita scale which goes from EF0 at the weakest to EF5 at the strongest.

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