Even relatively week tornadoes, which do little more than peel shingles and knock down a few trees, can cause power outages. Stronger tornadoes can leave many buildings badly damaged or destroyed and pose a substantial threat of injury and death to anyone not in an adequate shelter. In the works cases, a large, violent tornado can level entire neighborhoods and blow houses away, leaving dozens dead and hundreds injured.
Most likely yes. If an area can get thunderstorms it can get tornadoes.
Yes. The Phoenix area has had a few weak tornadoes.
There were no recorded tornadoes in the Omaha area in 2009.
The area that gets the most tornadoes in the U.S. (or in the world for that matter) is called Tornado Alley.
Yes. Tornadoes can and do hit southern Ontario and have even hit the Toronto area.
tornado alley is where most tornadoes are located.
Tornadoes can destroy vegetation, especially in forested areas and destroy habitats.
Yes. Depends on the area of the country, but fall tornadoes are not all that rare in Kansas or Missouri.
No. Tornadoes are fairly rare in California and they are almost always weak. That said, a few tornadoes have occurred in the LA area.
Yes it happens in denver area.
Most of the world's tornadoes happen in an area called "Tornado Alley". It is between the Rocky Mountains and Appalachian Mountains. It's a huge area.
Yes. In some cases the absence of tornado records is due to a lack of documentation rather than a lack of tornadoes. In other cases an area may experience tornadoes so infrequently that none have occurred since before people were around to document them. If a place has little record of tornadoes, that still means tornadoes have been recorded in that area.