23Sep/091
Tornado Hunter
by Jeff
Image text: The Fujita Scale was replaced by the Enhanced Fujita Scale in 2007, but I think 'EF-5' sounds stupid, so I vote we just use the new measurements for assigning numbers but still call them 'F-whatever'.
This is a riff on the show Discovery Channel show, Storm Chasers, in which they try to get as close to a tornado as possible with their highly tuned instruments.
This comic is a cross between Storm Chasers and a typical animal hunt in which the animal is shot and mounted as a prize.
The Fujita Scale is a hurricane rating system in which the size and strength of the tornado is rated based on damage on the ground from the tornado and wind speed.
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The Fujita and Enhanced Fujita scales are tornado rating systems, the Saffir-Simpson scale measures hurricanes.