re: This is why the tornado grading scale needs to be changed…

The difference with hurricanes is they’re able to fly planes and use dropsondes to accurately measure the storms intensity. Tornados are too small and happen too quickly to be able to do that. You can’t expect an Air Force plane to be up and ready to go for every tornado that happens like what happens with mesoscale features (like hurricanes). And, as was mentioned earlier, there’s too many radar gaps to count on radar alone. You have to have something that can be consistent from tornado to tornado. Hence damage. Is it perfect for every storm? No. But what does it matter if a tornado that hits nothing is rated Ef-1 instead of ef-0 or ef-5? The nerds like the boat, rummy, and rdsdc that really want to know and study it will anyway.