Yes!
It can be. It indicates that conditions are particularly favorable for the formation of strong tornadoes.
Texas gets the most tornadoes overall, though Kansas, Oklahoma, and Florida get more per area unit. "Really bad rain storms" can have a number of interpretations. However, the state with the most flash floods is Texas.
Tornadoes in Canada are usually not as bad as they are in the U.S. But a number of tornadoes in Canadian history, perhaps most notable the Edmonton tornado of 1987, have been pretty destructive.
Yes. Tornadoes have been known to destroy entire towns.
Tornadoes are categorized on the Fujita scale from F0 to F5 based on how bad their damag is.
Tornadoes are not alive so you can't really say whether they survive or not.
Tornadoes are considered bad because they damage or destroy the strutures and vegetation that they hit, sometimes killing or injuring those unlucky enough to be in their path.
Yes. Tulsa has been hit by a number of tornadoes, some of them quite strong.
Not really. Although hurricanes and tornadoes have some notable similarities, they are completely different phenomena. It is not uncommon for hurricanes to produce tornadoes, but most tornadoes are not a result of hurricanes.
Sort of. There are firewhirls, vortices of smoke of fire that resemble tornadoes. However, they technically are not tornadoes and have more in common with dust devils.
Not really. Although tornadoes can hit Tuscon, it is unusual and tornadoes stronger than EF1 are rare in Arizona.
Tornadoes are bad because they can damage or destroy property and kill and injure people.