A tornado affects anyone unfortunate enough to be in the path of one.
Yes. A river, forked or not, will not affect a tornado.
Nothing happens. The lightning will not affect the tornado.
Yes, a tornado is not considered a tornado unless it reaches the ground.
The main impact of a tornado on ecosystems is the destruction of trees and other vegetation. Animals caught in a tornado may be killed or injured as well.
How does changing the speed at which the bottle is spun affect the size or duration of the tornado created inside it?
The primary force at work in a tornado is a pressure gradient force. Pressure inside a tornado is lower than it is outside, which causes the path of any air near it to curve toward the center of the tornado. Slight variations in that pressure can affect how a tornado behaves, which is part of what makes tornadoes so hard to predict.
Possibly. There is some evidence that the most frequent tornado activity in Tornado Alley has shifted northward.
Oklahoma is in Tornado Alley. Tornadoes rarely affect Nevada.
No, lightning cannot stop a tornado. Lightning and tornadoes are independent weather phenomena. Lightning can occur during thunderstorms, which are often associated with tornadoes, but it does not have the ability to influence or stop a tornado.
Yes, using a different type of liquid can affect the time it takes for a tornado to form in a bottle. Thicker liquids such as honey or syrup may take longer to form a tornado compared to lighter liquids like water or oil. The viscosity and density of the liquid will impact the speed and stability of the tornado formation.
Tornadoes do not affect climate. Climate is the long term trend in weather patterns while a tornado is a short lived effect. Temperature inside a tornado is lower than it is in the surrounding environment. However, you would only experience this while inside the tornado itself.
Debris is the primary cause of death in a tornado. People may be killed or injured as the are pummeled, penetrated, or crushed by debris.