The United States has the most most prolific tornado-producing area in the world: Tornado Alley. This regions stretches across the plains in the middle part of the country. Here, warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico meets cool air from Canada and sometimes warm air from the Rockies. This can produce very powerfult thunderstorms. Shifts in wind speed and direction with altitude, called wind shear, set these storms rotating, turing them into supercells, the primary producers of tornadoes, especially strong tornadoes. Related effects in adjacent regions lead to a high rate of tornado occurence in most of the region between the Appalachians and the Rockies. Such a large region that is prone to tornadoes brings the average number of tornadoes in the U.S. to more than 1,200 per year. In addition to being more frequent, American tornadoes also tend to be the most violent, making them more likely to become major news items.
Oklahoma gets a large number of tornadoes because there are often colliding air masses of different temperatures and/or dew points. These collisions often produce severe thunderstorms. The region that Oklahoma is in, called Tornado Alley, also gets a lot of wind shear. Wind shear occurs when wind at high altitude blows at a different speed and/or direction. This creates horizontal vortices of air that, when turned vertical, give a storm the spin it needs to produce a tornado.
The earth has tornadoes because if the land is flat and cold and hot weather mixes together in the wind it forms a tornado which gets stronger by the second.
Tornadoes are sometimes divided into "weak" tornadoes "strong" and "violent" tornadoes. Weak tornadoes are those rated EF0 and EF1. Most tornadoes are weak. Strong tornadoes are those rated EF2 and EF3. Violent tornadoes are those rated EF4 and EF5. They are the rarest of tornadoes, only about 1% of tornadoes are this strong.
Obviously it is tornadoes not tornados tornado is singular while tornadoes are plural
Enormous vortices have been observed on the sun that resemble tornadoes. They have been called "solar tornadoes" but they are not tornadoes by the meteorological definition.
No, we can simulate tornadoes using fans but we cannot create actual tornadoes.
Yes. Louisiana has tornadoes. Tornadoes can happen anywhere in the United States. Although, tornadoes are more common in Tornado Alley. In number of recorded tornadoes, Louisiana ranks 12th among the states.
Tornadoes in the U.S. are called tornadoes.
Tornadoes are sometimes divided into "weak" tornadoes "strong" and "violent" tornadoes. Weak tornadoes are those rated EF0 and EF1. Most tornadoes are weak. Strong tornadoes are those rated EF2 and EF3. Violent tornadoes are those rated EF4 and EF5. They are the rarest of tornadoes, only about 1% of tornadoes are this strong.
It depends on what you mean by extreme. Tornadoes of EF4 and EF5 tornadoes, however are often referred to as violent tornadoes. These account for about 1% of all tornadoes.
Tornadoes don't get named, Hurricanes do, but Tornadoes don't.
Florida frequently has tornadoes, though several states have more tornadoes annually.
No. Tornadoes are violent.
No. Tornadoes are dangerous.
Antarctica does not get tornadoes.
Yes, some strong tornadoes create brief satellite tornadoes that circle the main funnel.
Obviously it is tornadoes not tornados tornado is singular while tornadoes are plural
Yes. There are tornadoes in Turkey. Tornadoes can occur almost anywhere.
There is nothing to be "done" about tornadoes. Tornadoes are a natural weather event.