Tornadoes can cause a localized disruption to transportation. Debris and downed trees may block roads and railroad tracks. Tornadoes can blow cars and trucks off roads and derail trains. Some very strong tornadoes can directly damage transportation infrastructure, stripping asphalt from roads and destroying some bridges.
Tornadoes can travel in any direction, but will most often travel from southwest to northeast.
Most tornadoes travel from southwest to northeast.
Tornadoes can travel down hill. Contrary to popular belief, hills have little to no effect on tornadoes.
Tornadoes can travel in any direction, but the majority move in an easterly. The most common direction of travel is northeast.
The distance that tornadoes travel varies greatly. Most tornadoes travel a mile or two, but long track tornadoes can travel for well over 100 miles. The longest tornado path on record was 219 miles.
Tornadoes don't really affect aquifers at all. Aquifers are far enough underground to be beyond the influence of tornadoes.
Global winds affect the general weather patterns in many regions. In areas that have high frequencies of tornadoes, wind patterns and regional topography often lead to warm moist air masses colliding with cooler air and/or drier air, thus producing strong thunderstorms that can potentially produce tornadoes. Such regions also often have a lot of wind shear, which occurs when the speed and direction of wind changes with altitude. This can give storms the rotation needed to produce tornadoes. Finally, global winds affect the direction that tornadoes usually travel. For example, due to the prevailing winds most tornadoes in the United States travel from southwest to northeast.
Global winds affect the general weather patterns in many regions. In areas that have high frequencies of tornadoes, wind patterns and regional topography often lead to warm moist air masses colliding with cooler air and/or drier air, thus producing strong thunderstorms that can potentially produce tornadoes. Such regions also often have a lot of wind shear, which occurs when the speed and direction of wind changes with altitude. This can give storms the rotation needed to produce tornadoes. Finally, global winds affect the direction that tornadoes usually travel. For example, due to the prevailing winds most tornadoes in the United States travel from southwest to northeast.
They can, but most tornadoes happen on land.
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Tornadoes do not affect climate change. They may be affected by climate change, but how is yet to be determined.
They don't really. Tornadoes can cause some soil erosion, but this affect is not very significant except in rare cases of extremely violent tornadoes.