Surprisingly, typical damage is not all that severe. The majority of tornadoes are classified as EF0 or EF1. In these tornadoes, houses may lose some roof surface and siding. Weak structures such as sheds and barns may be destroyed Trees may be knocked down.
Some tornadoes are strong enough to destroy well-built houses, but these account for less than 5% of all recorded tornadoes.
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Strong tornadoes (F2 and F3) can tear roofs and even walls from well built houses, obliterate trailers, rip trees out of the ground.
Violent tornadoes (F4 and F5) completely destroy most buildings, strip the bark from trees, and even tear asphalt from roads.
The severity of damage caused by a torndo can vary widley, and there is in fact a scale used to rate tornadoes based on that, called the Enhanced Fujita scale which has six levels ranging from EF0 to EF5. The rating is based on the most severe damage the tornado causes. Here are those categories with typical damage.
Tornadoes have many weapons in their arsenal.The wind is a tornadoes primary weapon, but tornadoes can also do damage with debris carried by those winds. Depending on the strength of a tornado, it can cause very little damage to widespread destruction.
Damage from tornadoes can include broken glass, and loss of roof material, and snapped tree limbs in minor to moderate cases. Significant tornadoes can result in roofs and walls being torn from buildings, with weaker structures being flattened or blown away. Large trees can be pulled out of the ground or snapped at the trunk. In the most powerful tornadoes most buildings are destroyed and sometimes scattered downwind. The fer trees left standing are reduced to mere trunks stripped of their bark.
Tornadoes can cause damage to your home, your property, and all of your belongings. It can also damage people. People can die or get seriously injured. Tornadoes can be verydangerous.
Damage can include damage to the roof, windows, and siding and broken tree limbs in weak tornadoes; the removal of the roof and walls, in strong tornadoes, and complete destruction of well-built structure in the most violent of tornadoes.
Damage varies depending on intensity. The weakest and most common tornadoes are rated EF0, causing relatively minor damage such as removal of small sections of roof surface, broken tree limbs, and weak-rooted trees toppled Gutters and awnings may fall.
The strongest and rarest tornadoes are rated EF5. These tornadoes are absolutely devastating. Nearly anything struck by the full force of an EF5 will be completely destroyed. Houses are blown clean off their foundations, high rise buildings are deformed.
Some tornadoes stay in open fields and cause no damage, while others may cause just a few thousand dollars in damage. Unfortunately this is not always the case. When a very strong tornado hits a town it cause sometimes cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, with some straying upwards of $1 billion dollars.
Depends on the winds. EF0s can do little damage like roof shingles peeled off, EF1s can bend a garage door, break windows, and peel away a significant portion of a roof surface. EF2s can pick up cars, tear roofs from houses, and completely destroy trailers, EF3s can possibly destroy your home, collapsing walls sometimes leaving only a few walls standing. EF4s create devastating damage with well built houses completely leveled and bark peeled from trees, and EF5s; these are very rare, but cause utter devastation with well-built homes wiped clean of their foundations, sometimes leveling entire towns.
Depending on how strong it is a tornado can damage or destroy just about anything. Even a relatively weak tornado can topple trees, break windows, and tear off roof tiles.
In a very violent tornado little to nothing remains intact. Well built houses are completely obliterated, trees are uprooted and thrown or left as bare trunks stripped of their bark. High rise buildings collapse or suffer irreparable damage.
The damage depends on the intensity and can range from minor damage to total devastation.
At the lowest end of damage (EF0) tree limbs are broken and some trees are toppled. Small sections of roof surfaces may be tripped away with gutters, awnings, and vinyl siding taken down. Trailers may be overturned
Then next damage level, EF1 roofs are badly stripped of material and trailers are severely damaged. Windows break.
What is called significant damage begins at EF2 in which houses lose their roofs completely and trailers are completely destroyed.
An EF3 tornado causes severe damage. Houses are partially reduced to rubble as many, if not most of the interior and exterior walls collapse. Most trees will be uprooted by and EF3.
An EF4 causes devastating damage. Houses completely collapse and are left as piles of rubble. Trees are debarked.
An EF5 causes total devastation. Well-built houses disintegrate and are swept clean off their foundations. Asphalt may be peeled from roads.
Damage doesn't cause tornadoes. Tornadoes cause damage. Damage from tornadoes can range from downed trees and peeled shingles, to roofs torn off and trailers tipped apart, to well built houses blown away and entire neighborhoods leveled. This depends on the strength of the tornado.
The damage from a tornado is usually more severe than that of a hurricane, but because a tornado covers a much smaller area, the total amount of damage from a tornado is usually less.
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The extremely powerful winds of a tornado cause the most damage. Debris carried by the wind is also very damaging, but exactly how much of the damage is caused by debris or wind is unclear and likely varies considerably depending on the tornado and where it occurs. Debris is a more significant factor for a tornado that goes through a town than for one that only hits isolated farms.
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Tornadoes cause damage through a combination of powerful winds that can tear apart structures and vegetation and flying debris that can cause severe damage on impact.
The damage from a tornado is usually more severe than that of a hurricane, but because a tornado covers a much smaller area, the total amount of damage from a tornado is usually less.
The cost of damage of the Tri-State tornado amounts to $16.5 million in 1925 values, equivalent to about $390 million today.
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 Moore, Oklahoma tornado of 1999 caused $1 billion worth of damage. This works out to $1.4 billion in 2014 amounts.
A space tornado can cause serious damage, usually 2-4 miles wide if it touches ground. But most of the time, it doesn't touches ground
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The center of a tornado.
Yes a tornado can cause property damage ranging from minor roof damage and loss of gutters and siding to complete destruction of well-constructed buildings.
Yes. A hurricane affects a much larger area than a tornado and so will likely cause more damage overall. Tornado damage is generally more severe than hurricane damage, but it is limited to a small area. There have been far more hurricanes than tornadoes that have caused more than $1 billion in damage.
There are two basic ways in which tornadoes cause damage. First, the wind in a tornado carries an enormous amount of force, which can damage tor destroy structures and vegetation. Second, debris carried by a tornado can cause significant damage on impact.
The extremely powerful winds of a tornado cause the most damage. Debris carried by the wind is also very damaging, but exactly how much of the damage is caused by debris or wind is unclear and likely varies considerably depending on the tornado and where it occurs. Debris is a more significant factor for a tornado that goes through a town than for one that only hits isolated farms.
Simple predicate italicized, complex predicate in bold.The center of a tornado can cause a great deal of damage.