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The area with the highest tornado frequency in the U.S. is Tornado Alley. A region stretching across the Great Plains from Texas to South Dakota and Iowa. Another tornado hot spot is in Florida.
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∙ 12y agoMidwest region typically called tornado alley
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Do tornadoes and hurricanes often occur together?
Yes. While most tornadoes are the result of other types of storm system, it is fairly common for a hurricane to spawn tornadoes.
Which of these occur when Earth's crust slips a fault line tornadoes earthquakes snowstorms or water erosion?
Earthquakes occur when the crust slips. The other events and processes are unrelated.
How are tsunamis and tornadoes alike?
They are both natural disasters that can be very destructive and strike quickly. Other than that they are very different.
What natural disasters happen in Louisiana?
New Orleans is an area of the United States prone to a couple of different natural disasters. The area is prone to hurricanes and tornadoes.
What are other names for storms on land?
There is no particular term for storms that occur on land. Types of storm that can occur on land include thunderstorms, derechos, tornadoes, dust storms, snow storms, ice storms, windstorms, and mid-latitude cyclones.
Is there any place or time that tornadoes do not occur?
Yes. Tornadoes do not occur in Antarctica and likely do no occur in parts of the Arctic and in areas of extreme desert. There are many other regions that are cold or arid that tornadoes occur, but are extremely rare.
Is it possible for tornadoes to occur in other areas of the us other than the Texas area?
Yes. Tornadoes have occurred in all 50 U.S. states. Florida has one of the highest rares of tornadoes, and some of the worst U.S. tornadoes have impacted Missouri, Illinois, and Mississippi.
Where besides the US do tornadoes most commonly occur?
Tornadoes can occur almost anywhere, but areas of high tornado activity other than the United States include southern Canada, India and Bangladesh, Australia, Argentina, South African, and parts of northern Europe.
Do tornadoes occur in places other then the us?
Yes. Tornadoes have been recorded on every continent other than Antarctica.
In what layer of the atmosphere do tornadoes and hurricanes occur?
Hurricanes, tornadoes, and virtually all other forms of weather occur in the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere.
Are tornadoes in Kansas deadly?
Overall, only a handful of the tornadoes that occur in Kansas kill anyone. But this is true of tornadoes anywhere. However, a greater percentage of the tornadoes that occur in Kansas are killers because tornadoes are stronger there than they are in most other parts of the world.
Do tornadoes occur in the US?
Yes. The United States gets more tornadoes than any other country.
What country do tornadoes mostly occur in?
Tornadoes are most common in the U.S. They are poorly documented in many other countries.
Is it true that tornadoes only occus in the US?
Tornadoes occur in other countries besides the US. However, the US heartland has ideal conditions for tornadoes.
What clouds appear when tornadoes occur?
Tornadoes are produced by cumulonimbus clouds. Other clouds associated with tornadoes include wall clouds and funnel clouds.
Does Cyprus have tornadoes?
Oh yeah. They have had an outbreak in 2004 with around seven tornadoes. They have also had EF2 tornadoes in Limassol and many other areas.
Why are these areas more likely to have tornado than other areas?
There are certain climatic factors that influence tornado frequency. Tornadoes need strong thunderstorms to form, these usually occur when warm moist air collides with cool dry air, the storms also need wind shear and a number of other factors to produce tornadoes. Such factors come together in some areas more than others.
