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Who devised the Fujita scale?

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Fujita scale or F-Scale, standard scale for rating the severity of tornadoes as a measure of the damage they cause, devised in 1951 by the Japanese-American meteorologist Tetsuya (Ted) Fujita (1920-98).

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