{"slug": "fujita-scale", "label": "Fujita scale", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujita_scale", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380770", "qid": "Q380770", "description": "scale for rating tornado intensity", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [1091, 2007], "span_label": ["1091 CE", "2007 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 7}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "u-s-state", "label": "U.S. state", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "london-bridge", "label": "London Bridge", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canada", "label": "Canada", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lincolnshire", "label": "Lincolnshire", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1091, "year_label": "1091 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "October 17", "text": "October 17 – London tornado: A T8 tornado (roughly equal to an F4 on the Fujita scale) occurs in London. The wooden London Bridge is demolished and the church of St. Mary-le-Bow is badly damaged.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267069429#Disasters", "title": "1091", "revid": 1267069429, "section": "Events › By topic › Disasters"}}, {"year": 1666, "year_label": "1666 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – The most intense tornado on record in English history, an F4 storm on the Fujita scale or T8 on the TORRO scale, strikes the county of Lincolnshire with a path of destruction through the villages of Welbourn, Wellingore, Navenby and Boothby Graffoe, with winds of more than 213 mph.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988943#October–December", "title": "1666", "revid": 1365988943, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1924, "year_label": "1924 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "June 13", "text": "June 13 – In Hungary, a devastating tornado, \"Wildkansas\", strikes, in 3 hours leaving a 500–1500m wide and 70 km long path of destruction from landfall at Bia to its end near Vác, completely destroying the village of Páty. 9 people are killed, 50 injured and many left homeless by one of the strongest tornadoes ever not only in Hungary but in Europe, estimated as F4.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372136634#June", "title": "1924", "revid": 1372136634, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1953, "year_label": "1953 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "May 11", "text": "May 11 – Waco tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado hits in the downtown section of Waco, Texas, killing 114.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310369#May", "title": "1953", "revid": 1371310369, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1966, "year_label": "1966 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "June 8", "text": "June 8 – 1966 Topeka tornado: Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an \"F5\" on the Fujita scale, the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed, and the campus of Washburn University suffers catastrophic damage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370246126#June", "title": "1966", "revid": 1370246126, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 28", "text": "August 28 – The Plainfield Tornado (F5 on the Fujita scale) strikes the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 29 people (the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago metropolitan area).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#August", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "March 11", "text": "March 11–13 – The March 1990 Central United States tornado outbreak produces 64 tornadoes across six US states, including four violent F4/F5 tornadoes. The outbreak leaves 2 dead, 89 injured, and causes over $500 million in damages.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#March", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1999, "year_label": "1999 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "May 3", "text": "May 3 – 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak: a devastating tornado, rated F5 on the Fujita scale, hits southern and eastern Oklahoma City metropolitan area, killing 36 people (and 5 indirectly) and producing the highest winds recorded on Earth: 301 ± 20.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369767946#May", "title": "1999", "revid": 1369767946, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 2007, "year_label": "2007 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "June 22", "text": "June 22 – The 2007 Ellie tornado becomes the only F5 tornado recorded under the use of the Fujita scale in Canada, reaching windspeeds up to 320 mph (510 km/h).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370930640#June", "title": "2007", "revid": 1370930640, "section": "Events › June"}}]}