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What is the shape of a typical tornado?
cone prism
What is a column of violently rotating air in the shape of a funnel cloud?
A tornado
Funnel shape storm cloud formations are called?
tornado clouds
What is a shape coming down from a large cloud that is shaped like a funnel cloud?
Most likely it is a funnel cloud. If it touches the ground then it is a tornado.
Sizes and shapes of tornadoes?
Common terms used to describe a tornado's shape are rope (a very skinny tornado, usually dissipating), elephant trunk, stovepipe (a vertical column), cone, and wedge (a tornado that appears wider than it is tall).
Can A Tornado Happen With No Clouds?
No, it can not happen. You will always need a cloud to form a tornado. The kind of cloud that a tornado uses is a cumulonimbus cloud.
What are condensation funnel cloud and debris cloud?
The condensation funnel of a tornado is basically a cloud formed when moisture inside a tornado condenses and in that sense it is similar to an ordinary cloud. The debris cloud of a tornado is a cloud of debris picked up by a tornado usually from buildings and trees the tornado has damaged or destroyed.
What type of cloud is in a tornado?
The cloud that forms the visible part of a tornado is called a funnel cloud.
Is the dark base of a tornado called the wall cloud?
No, the wall cloud is a lowered section of the cloud base from which a tornado or funnel cloud descends. The dark cloud at the base of a tornado is called the debris cloud.
What is the typical shape of an atomic explosion?
The typical shape of the cloud produced by an atomic explosion is mushroom. the cloud shoots up through the lower atmosphere, highly condensed, then as it hits the less dense upper atmosphere the top part thins out , not up, therefore creating a mushroom shaped cloud
What is the diameter of a typical tornado funnel cloud?
the average tornado diameter is 50 yards. Some tornadoes, however are less than ten yards wide, while the biggest can be over two miles wide.
Is a tornado a cloud?
No. A tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending from the base of a thunderstorm to the ground. A tornado is often, but not always made visible by a funnel cloud. But the tornado is not the cloud itself.
