It is difficult to determine.
Many tornadoes have been very small, just a few feet wide.
The smallest tornado in the world would be classified as an EF0 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Tornadoes of this intensity have estimated wind speeds of 65-85 mph (105-137 km/h) and usually cause minor damage.
The weakest category on the Fujita scale is an F0. However, there have been thousands of F0 tornadoes and there is no real way of determining if any one of them was weaker than all the rest.
The path widths of the tornadoes of the 1965 Palm Sunday outbreak varied considerably. The smallest of the tornadoes in the outbreak were as small as 30 feet wide, while at least one tornado from the event was a mile wide.
No. Hurricanes are far bigger than tornadoes. The average tornado is 50 yards wide, with the smallest tornado on recorded being only 3 feet wide and the largest ever recorded at 2.6 miles. Hurricanes are 300 miles wide on average, the smallest ever recorded was about 60 miles wide and the largest over 1,300 miles.
Yes. Much bigger. The eye of a hurricane is larger than the whole tornado in nearly all cases. The eye of a hurricane is usually 20 to 40 miles wide The smallest hurricane eye on record was 2.3 miles wide. Only a few tornadoes have been larger than this. The largest tornado ever recorded was 2.6 miles wide. The typical tornado is 50 to 100 yards wide.
ok ok i may be talking crazy buuuuuut. I was in the last california tornado. It was a stormy day in tahoe vista, california it was July 22nd hail was pouring rain was pouring wind was about 15 mph with thunder and lightning and those are all the ingredients to a tornado so im not wrong. Anyways the tornado only lasted a min and nothing was damaged (it was also one of the smallest tornadoes ever) but it was kind.... Strange?
It is difficult to determine especially since a single tornado will oftern vary in size. A likely candidate is the Sherman, Texas tornado of May 15, 1896. This tornado was farily large among much of its path, averaging just under 1/4 mile wide. The actual F5 damage was in the town of Sherman near the end of the path, where the tornado had narrowed to only 60 yards wide. About 50 homes were destroyed of which 20 were completely obliterated. Another candidate is the Elie, Manitoba tornado of June 22, 2007. This tornado was somewhat similar to the one that hit Sherman in that the F5 damage ocurred when the tornado narrowed near the end of its lifespan. The tornado reached a maximum width of 330 yards, causing mostly F1 and F2 damage. Near the end of its meandering path it narrowed to less than 100 yards wide and became extremely intense, destoying several homes on the edge of Elie. A well-anchored brick house was ripped from its foundation and thrown.
Indoors: Take shelter in a basement, or the smallest room on the first floor (usually the bathroom). Outdoors, lay in a ditch or other depressed area.
No. The largest tornado ever recorded was 2.5 miles wide, and only a handful of tornadoes over 2 miles wide have ever been recorded. The smallest hurricane ever recorded was 60 miles wide, with most hurricanes being a few hundred miles wide.
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No, it is not possible to stop a tornado with another tornado. Tornadoes are formed by specific weather conditions in the atmosphere, and introducing another tornado would not have any effect on the existing tornado.
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