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Are tornadoes more likely to hit trailer parks than other communites?
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∙ 9y ago
No. Trailer parks are no more likely to be hit than any other patch of land of the same size. However, because trailer homes are weakly built and often not tied down, they are more easily destroyed. A trailer home can be completely destroyed by a tornado that would only remove the roof of a typical site-built house. The means that a tornado that hits a trailer park will generally cause more severe damage and is more likely to kill or seriously injure people and therefore more likely to attract media attention.
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Are tornadoes more likely to hit trailer parks than any other community?
No. Trailer parks are no more likely to be hit by tornadoes than anywhere else. Trailer homes tend to be weakly built and poorly anchored, so they are more easily destroyed by hing winds and tornadoes. As a result, tornadoes that hit trailer parks are more likely to cause major damage and produce casualties. Therefore they are more likely to attract media attention.
Do tornadoes mostly occur in trallier parks?
No. Tornadoes do not hit trailer parks more than any other place. However, a tornado that hits a trailer park is more likely to be a major news story because it is more likely to cause serious damage and fatalities. Most trailers are poorly built and can be destroyed by even a fairly weak tornado while it takes a pretty strong tornado to shred most houses. And weak tornadoes are more common than strong ones.
Are tornadoes more likely to hit trailer parks than other communities?
No. However a tornado that strikes a trailer park is more likely to cause major damage. In most cases it would take at least an EF3 tornado to destroy a frame house. Only about 4% of tornadoes are rated EF3 or higher. By contrast trailers are usually of a much weaker construction and are usually poorly anchored to the ground or not anchored at all and so are much more easily destroyed. Trailers are often destroyed by EF2 and high EF1 tornadoes. This means that perhaps 20% of tornadoes are capable of destroying trailers. Since trailers are more easily destroyed trailer parks also present an increased risk of tornado-related deaths and injuries. Because of these factors, a tornado that strikes a trailer park is more likely to come to the attention of the public.
Are tornadoes more likely to happen in the Midwestern States than in any other States?
Generally speaking, yes. The Midwestern states overall have more tornadoes than the other states. The one exception is Florida, which has a comparable number of tornadoes to Oklahoma, though Florida tornadoes are generally weaker than Midwestern tornadoes.
Which type of front would likely bring hail and tornadoes into an area?
Cold fronts most often bring tornadoes, hail, and other forms of severe weather.
Are tornadoes more likely to occur in California than in other states?
Generally not. While California is not at the bottom of the list, it experiences fewer tornadoes than most other states, averaging about 10 per year.
Why do tornadoes hate trailer parks?
Trailer parks do not get hit more often than anywhere else. But when they do get hit the damage is worse. A fairly weak tornado of F1 strength can destroy a trailer park when it would only cause moderate damage to a house, damage which would not usually make big news. To destroy a well-built house would usually require at least an F3 tornado. Such strong tornadoes occur far less frequently.
What front would likely bring hail and possible tornadoes into an area?
Tornadoes, hail and other forms of severe weather most often form ahead of cold fronts.
What goals did the US achieve by the fighting in Korea?
helping other people in thie communites
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.
What goals did the US fail to achieve fighting in Korea?
helping other people in thie communites
How many people did tornadoes kill in the twenty first century?
In the 21st century tornadoes killed at least 1,637 people. 1,227 of them were in the U.S. It is likely that some deaths in other countries were not documented.
