The Japan Meteorological Agency issued tornado alerts for Shizuoka Prefecture on May 1, first for the Izu region, and later expanded it to other regions. Atmospheric instability was observed ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency estimated the tornado's instantaneous wind velocity at 198 kph, making it the fourth strongest on the six-stage Japanese scale. In Makinohara, 91 buildings were ...

Ted Fujita was a Japanese-American engineer turned meteorologist. He immersed himself in research on tornadoes and introduced the “Fujita Scale”, a six-point scale to classify degrees of ...