"They photographed everything and fed their observations into a program on an iPad, ranking the destruction of Murray’s property a 6 out of 8 and concluding the wind speed had likely been 130 km/h.
The final report would be done back at the lab with the ultimate goal of determining whether a tornado actually touched down and assigning a rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale, a measure of wind intensity similar to the Richter scale for earthquakes but with a key difference being that it’s damage-based and requiring humans trained in forensic assessment to, as Miller put it, “work backwards” from the wreckage."
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