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What makes tornadoes enable to stretch upward into cloud or downward toward to ground?
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∙ 7y ago
The process of tornado formation usually starts about three miles above the ground, within a thunderstorm. A larger, less intense circulation, called a mesocyclone, tightens and stretches, extending toward the ground. The funnel itself is a result of moist air being drawn into the vortex. The low pressure inside the vortex causes temperature to drop, which in turn causes condensation.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 7y agoAs tornado usually starts as a vortex above the ground. This tight vortex develops when a downdraft wraps around a broader area of rotation, causing it to tighten and intensify. As the spiraling updraft tightens, it induces air beneath it to start spinning as well, and so propagates toward the ground.
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Do F5 Tornadoes tear roads off the ground?
Yes. There have been documented cases of F5 tornadoes and some F4 tornadoes tearing asphalt from roads.
A rotating cone shaped column of air extending downward from a cloud when it touches the ground it is called a tornado?
A rotating cone shaped column of air extending downward from a cloud when it touches the ground it is called a tornado
Do tornadoes usually hit earth or ground?
Well, touching the Earth is the same as the ground, so both.
How does a funnel cloud touch ground?
The funnel cloud marks the location of a vortex where air spirals upward. This vortex formed from a larger vortex called mesocyclone, which was squeezed by a downdraft, causing it to tighten in diameter, intensify, and stretch vertically. This stretching causes it to extend downward.
How do F5 tornadoes form from a F1 tornado?
Tornadoes fluctuate in intensity. An F5 tornado is only at F5 strength for part of the time it is on the ground.
Does a tornado form on the ground first?
No. General scientific consensus is that most tornadoes start forming up inside a thunderstorm and extend downward. There is evidence that some tornadoes form from the ground up, however.
How do funnel clouds become tornadoes?
A funnel cloud is a potentially tornadic vortex that has not reached the ground. Funnel cloud formation starts when a downdraft wraps around a large circulation called a mesocyclone, squeezing it, and causing it to narrow and stretch downward. If the resulting vortex reaches the ground, it is called a tornado.
How are tornadoes formed for third graders?
Tornadoes form from powerful, spinning thunderstorms called supercells. Sometimes some of the spinning air can start to squeeze tighter, which causes it to spin faster and stretch toward the ground. When it reaches the ground a tornado is born.
Do high clouds generally produce hail and tornadoes.?
Not high ones - but tall ones. That is they stretch from near ground level up towards the stratosphere.
What could happen in a tornado if it touches the cumulonimbus cloud?
Nothing special. All tornadoes stretch from cloud base to the ground. If the vortex doesn't reach cloud base or the ground it isn't a tornado.
Precipitation that soaks into the ground trickles downward due to?
precipitation is the water that soaks downward due to the ground trickles
What are the Pectoralis major stretches?
the large muscle of the breast that raises the downward thrust of the wing
Where do tornadoes form you the sky or on ground?
Tornadoes form from the sky.
Do tornadoes never touch the ground?
Yes, tornadoes do touch the ground. If the don't they are not considered tornadoes. However, in order to qualify the visible funnel does not have to reach ground winds, just the vortex of wind.
Can tornadoes formed in different ways?
Yes. There are two types of tornado. Most tornadoes form when the rotation in the mesocyclone of a supercell tightens and intensifies. These are the tornadoes that can do severe damage. These are called supercell tornadoes. There are also landspouts, which are essentially fair-weather waterspouts on land. Unlike supercell tornadoes, which develop downward from a parent storm, landspouts form from the ground up in a way similar to that of dust devil and then connect to the base of a developing storm.
Runoff is best describe as water that?
moves downward & into the ground.
Do tornadoes stay on the ground for a few minutes hours or days?
Most tornadoes last a few minutes, and some may only be on the ground for seconds. However, a handful of tornadoes have lasted for two or three hours.
