Tornadoes cause major property damage and often kill and injure people. The main concerns regarding tornadoes are these effects and warning people when a tornado is coming.
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No, Dust Tornado is a destruction card but not a negation card.
Yes. A tornado can easily injure or kill you. Some injuries may have lasting effects.
The Xenia, Ohio tornado of 1974 killed 32 people directly. Two others died from indirect effects of the tornado.
The effects when a tornado touches the ground, include damage or destruction of vegetation an man-made structures and humans and animals killed or injured.
No. The unequal heating will produce breezes, and perhaps clouds and rain, but much more is required to produce a tornado.
Buildings and trees are damaged or destroyed. People and animals may by injured or killed.
They are the same as for a tornado anywhere else. Short term effects would be buildings damaged and destroyed, downed trees, loss of power, and dealying with any injured or dead. Long term effects could include the financial impacts on those affected and people left with lasting injuries.
People near a tornado but not directly hit by it may suffer from the local economic effects of a tornado as businesses close and money is spend on repairs. They may suffer psychologically as people they know may be hurt or killed or lose their homes.
No tornado hit Joplin, Missouri in 2012. However, Joplin was devastated by an EF5 tornado on May 22, 2011. That tornado directly killed 158 people, the deadliest to hit the U.S. since 1947. Three or four other people died due to indirect effects.
As natural phenomena tornadoes do not serve any purpose; they simply are. Their effects are destruction, injury, and death.
There were fallen trees, shorn roof tops and broken fences