Natural gas is mostly methane. In my piece on the Cornell study, my subhed was âLeakage of methane from fracking boosts shale gas global warming impact.â I didnât note until several paragraphs later that âNatural gas is composed largely of methane,â which comes from the second sentence of the study itself.
Tornado strength is currently measured on what is called the Enhanced Fujita Scale (adapted from the simpler Fujita Scale in 2007), which gives the tornado a rating from 0 to 5 based on estimated wind speeds and the severity of the damage.
1 Size-Tornadoes can vary widely in size. 2  A typical tornado in the United States is around 500 feet across, but some may be as narrow as just a few feet across or as large as a mile wide. 3  Wind Speed-The wind speed of a tornado can vary from 65 to 250 miles per hour.