A tornado descends from the base of a thunderstorm.
No. Tornadoes descend from the base of thunderstorms, usually associated with very tall thunderstorms. The tornado begins in the lower portions of the storm. Furthermore, if the vortex does not touch the ground, it is not considered a tornado.
You can't. Tornadoes descend from thunderstorms, and so cannot be seen from above. You can, however, see the thunderstorms in a satellite image. See the link below for a satellite time lapse of storms tha produce tornadoes.
Tornadoes develop when wind shear (horizontally rolling air) is turned vertical by a thunderstorm and starts it rotating. This turns the thunderstorm into a supercell, a thunderstorm with a powerful, rotating updraft called a mesocyclone. If conditions are right, a downdraft called a rear-flank downdraft or RFD will descend from the storm and wrap around the mesocyclone, tightening and intensifying it and extending it down to the ground, producing a tornado. A funnel cloud has the general form of a tornado but is not in contact with the ground, while a tornado extends all the way from the clouds to the ground with winds capable of producing damage.
No, a haboob is not a tornado.
Tornado development (called tornadogenesis) begins when differences in wind speed and/or direction at different altitudes, called vertical wind shear, creates horizontal vortices of air. These vortices can then be turned vertical by a thunderstorm updraft, which takes on this rotation to become a mesocyclone. Under the right conditions a downdraft can descend from th back of the storm and wrap around the mesocyclone, tightening and intensifying it. This smaller, stronger circulation is the tornado.
No. Tornadoes descend from the base of thunderstorms, usually associated with very tall thunderstorms. The tornado begins in the lower portions of the storm. Furthermore, if the vortex does not touch the ground, it is not considered a tornado.
A tornado is formed when wind shear turns a storm into a supercell, a kinds of long-lived thunderstorm with a rotating updraft called a mesocyclone. Under the right conditions a downdraft may descend from the back of the storm and wrap around the mesocyclone, turning it into a tornado.
The hikers planned to descend the steep mountain before sunset.
Descend is a verb.
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First of all, the tornado is not called a supercell in the initial phases. The supercell is the larger thunderstorm that produces the tornado; it is not the tornado itself. In a supercell there is a rotating area of low pressure, primarily within the updraft portion of the storm, called a mesocyclone. At the most intense portion of the mesocyclone there is a rotating, low-hanging cloud called a wall cloud. Conditions within the thunderstorm cause a portion of the mesocyclone to tighten and intensify, and the circulation of the tornado begins to develop and descend toward the ground from the wall cloud.
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The past tense of descend is descended.
I descend down the stairs.
The plane is about to descend to a lower altitude.
No. They descend directly from the Sage of the Six Paths.
There are a couple verbs that can mean "to descend": descender , bajar.