Yes, in simplest terms a tornado is a vortex of very strong wind.
Neither is faster than the other. A twister and a tornado are the same thing.
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.
A tornado IS wind- very fast winds spinning in a circle.
A F6 tornado does not exist on the Enhanced Fujita scale, which ranges from F0 to F5. The most powerful tornado category, an F5 tornado, has wind speeds exceeding 200 mph and can cause catastrophic damage.
That varies. If you are close enough to be in the area of the tornado's inflow then the wind will blow almost directly towards the tornado, perhaps a little to the right of that direction. In that case the wind direction will depend on where the tornado is relative to you. If you are beyond the inflow area for the tornado, then nothing about the wind direction would indicate the approaching tornado.
The rotation in a tornado is driven by the wind shear, which is the change in wind speed and direction with height. This wind shear creates a horizontal rotation that is then tilted vertically by updrafts in the storm, leading to the spinning motion of the tornado.
A tornado is basically just a vortex of wind
The largest tornado ever recorded was the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado of May 31, 2013. This tornado was 2.6 miles wide. Doppler radar measured a wind gust in the tornado at 296 mph, the second highest wind speed ever recorded in a tornado.
A tornado is a type of wind storm, but in weather statistics, tornadoes are generally counted separately from other wind events.
A twister and a tornado are the same thing - a rotating column of air that comes into contact with the ground. The speed of a twister/tornado can vary greatly, with wind speeds typically ranging from 65 to 200 mph (105 to 322 km/h) depending on the strength of the storm.
Yes. In a strong enough tornado wind and debris carried by the wind can destroy houses.
Yes, the wind typically flows inward toward a tornado in a rotating motion. This rotation creates the characteristic funnel shape of a tornado as the air spirals inward towards the center of low pressure.