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If it's enough to be classified as a tornado, it will damage your house. Generally, winds in excess of 60 mph are considered sufficient to cause visible damage, though at this point it will be superficial unless a tree falls on ths house.

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Where does the damage come from the most in a tornado?

Most damage in a tornado is caused by the extremely fast winds.


About how fast does a tornado cause damage to property?

It depends. A tornado can cause property damage in a matter of seconds, but in a large, slow moving tornado, structures can be exposed to damging winds for several minutes. A very violent tornado can completely obliterate a well built house in under 3 seconds.


How do people know how fast a tornado goes?

In terms of how fast a tornado is moving, the tornado is tracked on radar. The forward speed is calculated based on how far it moves in a given period of time. The wind speed of a tornado is estimated based on the severity of the damage it causes.


How fast can a tornado brake a house?

Houses don't even have gas pedals- there are no brakes. However, a tornado can destroy a house in a matter of just a few seconds.


What are the cloud patterns for a tornado on a radar screen?

Radar does not scan for cloud patterns. In the case of finding a tornado it looks at wind speed. If a winds are moving very fast towards the radar and winds moving fast awaay from it in a small area, it means strong rotation and a possible tornado.


How does a tornado do damage to property?

The winds in a tornado are very fast carry a tremendous amount of force that can damage or destroy buildings and other objects. Objects picked up by those winds can become high speed projectiles.


What is the name of the scale used to find out how strong the tornado cell is?

Its called the enhanced fujita scale...it measures from an EF0 to an EF5 how fast the tornado was spinning. The wind speed is determined by examining damage.


How fast is the wind in an F2 tornado?

Estimated winds for an F2 tornado on the original Fujita scale are 113 to 157 mph. It was later found that this estimate was not quite right for the damage inflicted by an F2 tornado and so was refined to a range of 111 to 135 mph for an EF2 tornado.


How do scientist know how fast a tornado is going?

Doppler radar tracks the movement of the storm and can determine how fast it's going and, to a very limited degree, how fast its winds are. However, in nearly all cases the wind speeds reported in a tornado are estimated based on the severity of the damage that has been done.


How fast did the Joplin Missouri tornado travel?

The Joplin tornado of 2011 had a damage path 22 miles long and lasted 38 minutes, which works out to an average speed of about 35 mph. The winds inside the tornado are estimated to have peaked at 225 to 250 mph.


What is the powerful part of a tornado?

Tornadoes produce extremely fast winds can can badly damage or destroy man made structures. Depending on the tornado, the strongest winds occur either at the outer edge of the core or within smaller vortices that develop inside the tornado.


Explain the difference between how fast a tornado is moving and how fast its rotational winds are?

How fast a tornado is moving refers to how fast the tornado itself travels from point A to point B. For example, a tornado moving towards at 30 mph and is a mile away will reach you in 2 minutes. The rotational winds of a tornado refers to how fast the tornado itself is spinning, which is generally faster than its forward speed.