Tornadoes cause damage with their high winds, flying debris, and sometimes by toppling trees into buildings. Though you might think of the second and ther as the same.
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.
tornados can cause the fastes damage , if i had to list them i would say 1. TORNADO(IT CAN DESTROY ALOT IN A COUPLE OF MINUTES) 2.EARTHQUAKE(IT CAN SHAKE A LARGE AREA BUT NOT ALWAYS CAUSE THAT MUCH OF A DAMAGE AS a tornado could) 3.HURRICANE
The cost of damage from the Manchester, South Dakota tornado of 2003 was $3 million.
The narrowest damage path on record for a tornado was 3 feet wide.
The most destructive tornado in Ohio history was the Xenia tornado of April 3, 1974. This F5 tornado killed 34 people and caused $439 million in property damage (in 2011 U.S. dollars).
The most famous tornado today is most likely the Oklahoma City tornado of May 3, 1999. That tornado caused approximately $1 billion in damage.
An EF-3 tornado can cause significant damage to a house, including tearing off roof materials and exterior walls. However, the complete destruction of a house would typically require a higher intensity tornado, such as an EF-4 or EF-5.
The May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak caused extensive damage, particularly in Oklahoma, where an F5 tornado resulted in 36 fatalities and over 600 injuries. Thousands of homes were destroyed, and the total damage was estimated to be in the billions of dollars.
The smallest tornado in the world would be classified as an EF0 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Tornadoes of this intensity have estimated wind speeds of 65-85 mph (105-137 km/h) and usually cause minor damage.
They often do as they cover a larger area and often cause flooding in addition to wind damage. The costliest tornado in U.S. history, the Joplin tornado of 2011, cost $2.8 billion. The costliest hurricane in U.S. history, Hurricane Katrina, cost $105 billion.
The tornado that ocurred in New Mexico on August 3, 2011 was short-lived and remained over an open area, so there was no damage.
The Natchez tornado of 1840 was a supercell tornado, as are nearly all killer tornadoes, and was probably an F5.