Tornadoes usually move southwest to northeast.
Tornado Alley.
The idea is that studying tornadoes, which sometimes means getting close to them, allows us to better understand them. A better understanding of tornadoes may help us predict them, which would mean better warnings for people who might be in the path of a tornado.
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You can drive across the US, you can take a bus across the US, you can fly across the US, you can take the train across the US.
Tornadoes in the U.S. are called tornadoes.
Tornadoes occur in other countries besides the US. However, the US heartland has ideal conditions for tornadoes.
The most recent large tornadoes in the United States, as of October 28, 2013, occurred on October 4. Several large tornadoes touched down across parts of Nebraska and Iowa.
Most tornadoes in the Midwest of the US follow a southwest to northwest track because they are typically associated with weather systems moving from west to east. The rotating supercell thunderstorms that produce tornadoes often form on the southern edge of these systems and are carried along their path, resulting in a southwest to northwest movement.
In the relatively small area they actually cover, it is devastating. The crop can be laid over, wind-whipped, or even completely removed from the soil. Tornadoes also destroy buildings, storage structures such as grain bins, tractors and other equipment, and take the lives of people and animals in their path. In the US, tornadoes typically cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage every year, along with taking a number of lives. Since they are an extremely localized phenomenon, the total effect on US agriculture as a whole is comparatively minimal.
Tornadoes can effect us because they can destroy our property. If you know a tornado is in the area, you need to take proper precautions.
In 2011 there were 1,626 tornadoes and 552 deaths.
There were 1692 tornadoes in the U.S. in 2008.