WEATHER
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Tampa Bay Weather Channel 28
for highly accurate storm information
Florida is the lightning capital of the world!!
My Lightning Tracker is the best app for monitoring lightning strikes all around the world in close to real-time. With a sleek modern design, watch thunderstorms as they occur.
-Receive push notifications when a storm is nearby so that you can monitor it live.
-Share a strike with your friends so that they can see where the thunder & lightning is happening too!
-See a history of hotspots where lightning strikes occur most often!
-View more detailed information about where the thunderstorm is occurring on a map.
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HOW TORNADOS ARE MEASURED
The EF Scale is the standard way to measure tornadoes based on wind damage.
The original Fujita Scale (or F Scale) was developed by Dr. Theodore Fujita. All tornadoes, and other severe local windstorms, were assigned a number according to the most intense damage caused by the storm.
The enhanced F Scale (EF Scale) was implemented in the United States on February 1, 2007. The EF scale uses three-second wind gust estimates based on a more detailed system for assessing damage, taking into account different building materials.
