Yes. A tornado will generally move in the same direction as its parent storm.
Once a tornado is on the ground meteorologists look at where the tornado is and the direction it is traveling, which allows some prediction of its path. However scientists still do not fully understand how tornadoes change direction, so that cannot be predicted well aside from the tendency of strong tornadoes to make left turns.
1948
Only to a very limited degree. On the long term, analysis of large scale weather patterns can determine a period of a few hours in which tornadoes are likely to form in a region. However, this analysis cannot predict where or when individual tornadoes will strike. On the sorter term, radar analysis can determine if a tornado is likely to produce a tornado in the next few minutes, though it still cannot say when a tornado will form. If a tornado has already formed and we know its location, speed, and direction, we can gauge approximately when it will reach certain locations.
It came out of the west.
Yes. A tornado can move in any direction, though tornadoes that move westward are rare.
storm watching and weather radar
Once a tornado is on the ground meteorologists look at where the tornado is and the direction it is traveling, which allows some prediction of its path. However scientists still do not fully understand how tornadoes change direction, so that cannot be predicted well aside from the tendency of strong tornadoes to make left turns.
Yes i can by using technology scientist predicted it.
That varies. If you are close enough to be in the area of the tornado's inflow then the wind will blow almost directly towards the tornado, perhaps a little to the right of that direction. In that case the wind direction will depend on where the tornado is relative to you. If you are beyond the inflow area for the tornado, then nothing about the wind direction would indicate the approaching tornado.
1948
The speed and direction of a tornado can be determined using Doppler radar by measuring how far the tornado moves between sweeps and in what direction.
No. The Tri-State Tornado occurred in 1925. There were no efforts to predict tornadoes until the 1940s.
Tornados are not scheduled, nor can they be predicted in advance.
THAT Depends on where the Storm that produced that Tornado is going
There is know way of knowing that. The development of an individual tornado might be predicted, at most, a few minutes ahead of time
Tornadoes cannot be predicted in advance like that. So it is impossible to know that. watch the weather channel for tornado warning (s)
It is impossible to make such predictions. Whether or not a place will be hit by a tornado cannot be predicted more than a few minutes in advance.