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Is the warm air mass forming a tornado a tropical air mass?
Yes. The warm air mass that often plays a role in tornado formation is called a maritime tropical air mass.
What is the effect of a warm air mass and a cooler air mass converging at earth's surface?
tornado
What rotating air mass is in a thunderstorm cloud?
A tornado
When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and a neither can move the other the result is a?
a tornado
2 types of air masses that form a tornado?
Most often a warm, moist air mass collides with a cool air mass, a cold air mass, or both. However, such a collision alone will only form thunderstorms. Other factors are needed for those storms to produce tornadoes.
Air masses that form a tornado?
Tornadoes are a product of severe thunderstorms usually found where a warm, moist air mass collides with either a cooler air mass or a dry air mass.
Is a tornado cold or hot air?
Tornadoes typically form in a warm air mass, as that is what provides the energy, though it is often near a boundary with a cooler or drier air mass. However, due tot he pressure drop the air in a tornado is cooler than its surroundings.
What are 2 words for a rapidly spinning air mass that is dangerous that both start with a T?
These are: Tropical Tornado: or a Cyclone.
What kind of air masses bring tornadoes?
A tornado usually requires a warm, moist air mass, most often when it collides with a cool and/or dry air mass.
When a more dense air mass meets a less dense air mass what weather condition ocurs?
Usually a thunderstorm, but depending on the temperature a tornado can also form.
Why does the mass of whirling air in a tornado move downward?
Generally, it doesn't. Air generally moves up in a tornado. When the funnel of a tornado descends, the air is not moving down. The funnel itself is due to the pressure drop inside a tornado. This cools the air that is drawn into it, causing moisture in it to condense into a cloud. As the tornado forms and intensifies, the pressure and core temperature drop, allowing condensation to occur at a lower altitude. In some tornadoes, however, air does move down in the center of a tornado. This occurs when a tornado is spinning so rapidly that air spiraling in from the sides cannot reach the center. Instead, air is drawn downward through the center.
What causes air to rise in the first stage of a tornado?
The tornado forms from the already existing updraft of a thunderstorm. The thunderstorm has (and actually develops from) an updraft that occurs as a result of an ai mass being warmer, moister, and thus less dense than either the surrounding air or an adjacent air mass.
