Typical tornado damage includes snapped trees, material peeled from roofs, and some weak structures badly damaged.
Typical damage from an intense tornado includes large numbers of trees snapped or uprooted, houses partially or completely destroyed, and weak structures completely torn apart or blown away.
Subvortices are smaller vortices, almost like mini tornadoes, within the main vortex of a tornado. These subvortices have stronger winds than the main vortex, and result in a tornado with a continuous damage path with intermittent areas of more severe damage.
Tornadoes primarily cause damage through their powerful winds, which carry an enormous amount of force.
"Light damage" is the term used to describe the damage caused by an F0 tornado.
it depends on the tornado damage
Most damage in a tornado is caused by the extremely fast winds.
The longest tornado damage path on record is 219 miles.
There is no difference. A tornado and a twister are the same thing.
It depends on the tornado, but in the most destructive tornadoes, the worst damage is usually done by a series of smaller subvortices that revolve withing the main circulation.
The damage is surveyed and where damage boundaries are is noted. This is the used to show how wide the tornado is. Note that the size is not a factor in how the tornado is rated but how intense the damage is.
Unfortunately there is no way to prevent tornado damage, but it can be reduced with improved building standards.
Sort of. Some tornadoes have smaller vorticies inside them that cause swaths of more severe damage within the main damage path. However, a tornado such as this is still considered one tornado.
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.