Do tornadoes devolop

Answer 1

Do tornados develope? Yes. The beginning of most tornadic activity is in a thunderstorm that rotates in a vertical column on a very large scale. Sometimes these storms become "supercells", which are the most massive thunderstorms we know of besides hurricanes. Tornados result when the winds spinning of the entire thunderstorm column become corkscrewed tighter and tighter within the clouds. There are markers that radars can find called "shear markers" that indicate top, mid and low-level rotation in a cloud. When two or more of these markers overlap a eventual lowering of the cloud base occurs. If the spinning cloud lowers enough, it will come into contact with the ground. Once there, the tornado may continue to grow in size and speed, it may also spin off additional tornados. Tornados eventually die when this corkscrew effect isn't enough to sustain the tight formations of wind on the ground. At that point, the tornado appears to lift back up into the cloud or simply loses form.