Tornado winds range widely. Based on estimates of the Enhanced Fujita Scale winds for an EF0 tornado, the weakest category, start at 65 mph (105 km/h). The upper limit of tornado winds is believed to be just over 300 mph (483 km/h), though tornadoes this strong are extremely rare.
The average tornado is most likely a high-end EF0 with winds of about 80 mph (129 km/h).
The tornadoes that cause the most significant damage that often make headlines are in the categories EF3-EF5 with estimated winds over 135 mph (217 km/h).
The highest measured wind speeds in a tornado were about 480 kilometres per hour (300mph). However, most tornadoes are weaker, with winds in the range 100-170 km/h (65-110 mph).
Winds in a tornado can be anywhere from about 65 mph to over 300mph.
Most tornadoes have winds under 85 mph.
There is no specific term for the winds in a tornado, though tornadoes are recorded separately from other wind events. The area where the winds are spinning may be referred to as the circulation, though this term can apply to other wind vorticies as well.
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.
A tornado is not a solid thing that you can touch, it is a vortex of very fast wind.
The air pressure in a tornado is lower than that outside the tornado. That is why the wind blows toward the funnel.
There is no set wind speed to that qualifies as a tornado, though different scales have minimum estimates ranging from 40mph to 65 mph.
A tornado IS wind- very fast winds spinning in a circle.
You could say that a tornado is a kind of very fast spinning wind that sometimes happens during a thunderstorm that can wreck houses.
First answer: A tornado moves in a circular pattern; as a result, the wind speed depends upon the distance from the center. Second answer: Because of the differences on the wind speed the center of the hurricane or tornado becomes surrounded by fast moving masses of air and debris, like a wall.These winds are spinning so fast that they cannot reach the center.
There is no specific term for the winds in a tornado, though tornadoes are recorded separately from other wind events. The area where the winds are spinning may be referred to as the circulation, though this term can apply to other wind vorticies as well.
It is a tornado.
Yes. A tornado is wind, more specifically a violent vortex of spinning wind.
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.
Wind and debris.
In most tornadoes the wind moves up in the center of a tornado. However, in others there is a downdraft that forms because the tornado is spinning so fast that winds from the outside cannot reach the center. This creates a calm area similar to the eye of a hurricane.
No. A tornado is just one type of wind event out of many. Wind is any movement of air. A tornado is a violently spinning vortex of wind that forms during a thunderstorm and connects to both the clouds and the ground.
The wind moves in a spiral fashion, moving rapidly toward the center of the tornado in a cyclonic fashion, meaning counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern. In the core of the tornado this wind takes on a more circular pattern. In addition to the spiral movement, wind in a tornado moves rapidly upwards. There may be fairly calm area of sinking air at the center of some tornadoes. In these tornadoes, a series of smaller whirlwinds can sometimes develop inside the tornado. These spinning columns of air circle the tornado's center, moving with the rotation.
The parent circulation of the tornado, called a mesocyclone, keeps a tornado going.