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Generally, it doesn't. Air generally moves up in a tornado. When the funnel of a tornado descends, the air is not moving down. The funnel itself is due to the pressure drop inside a tornado. This cools the air that is drawn into it, causing moisture in it to condense into a cloud. As the tornado forms and intensifies, the pressure and core temperature drop, allowing condensation to occur at a lower altitude. In some tornadoes, however, air does move down in the center of a tornado. This occurs when a tornado is spinning so rapidly that air spiraling in from the sides cannot reach the center. Instead, air is drawn downward through the center.

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