Fujita scale

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • A scale used to rate the intensity of a tornado; now superseded by the Enhanced Fujita scale.

Origin

  • From the Japanese-American meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (藤田哲也).

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