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This instructional guidance is for design professionals and building officials to help them determine when a building or other structure is required to be designed to minimum tornado loads and how to calculate design tornado forces. This guide is in accordance with the updated requirements of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) / Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) standard ASCE 7-22, Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures.
The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide a brief overview of building envelope and load path improvements to reduce damage to wood-framed, one- and two-family residential structures when impacted by tornadoes rated on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale as EF2 or less intensity, and indirectly by tornadoes with a greater EF rating.
The purpose of this advisory is to inform essential facility owners, operators, and planners of ways to improve the tornado performance of their existing or new essential facilities and how to reduce loss of functionality of the facility during and after a tornado.
The purpose of this Recovery Advisory is to emphasize the importance of building codes and introduce best practices intended to minimize tornado damage as part of the rebuilding effort for non-residential buildings that are not essential facilities
Federal Emergency Management Agency Community Education Outreach Specialists Emilio Perez and Jose Ruvira use a model landscape to demonstrate the importance of floodplain management to students at Mayfield High School in Mayfield, Ky., on Thursday, March 31, 2022. The model helps to demonstrate the impact of human development on flood plains and reinforces the importance of mitigation efforts. (FEMA Photo/Alberto Pillot)
Federal Emergency Management Agency Community Education Outreach Specialists Emilio Perez and Jose Ruvira use a model landscape to demonstrate the importance of floodplain management to students at Hopkins County Central High School in Madisonville, Ky., on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. The model helps to demonstrate the impact of human development on flood plains and reinforces the importance of mitigation efforts. (FEMA Photo/Alberto Pillot)
Report on Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA) information for FEMA-4630-DR; Kentucky as a result of severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding and tornadoes beginning on December 10, 2021, and continuing.