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Are tornadoes always the rear of a storm?
No, tornadoes can form in different parts of a storm system, including the rear but also in the front or along the edges. Tornadoes are typically associated with severe thunderstorms and can develop wherever the conditions are right for their formation within the storm.
What do tornadoes look like from space?
Tornadoes themselves cannot be seen from space because they are blocked from above by the thunderstorms that produce them. The link below shows a storm satellite of a storm system that was producing tornadoes at the time the picture was taken. The tornadoes themselves formed under the storms that are seen as the right-hand branch of the spiral-shaped system. Again, what you are seeing is the storm that produced the tornadoes, not the tornadoes themselves. At this resolution individual tornadoes would be too small to see anyway.
Are tornadoes the fastest storm?
In terms of wind speed, yes. Tornadoes are the only storms on earth that can produce gusts in excess of 300 mph. However, tornadoes this intense are very rare.
Can a hurricane and tornado form and come together?
They can't combine into a single storm, if that's what you mean, as tornadoes and hurricanes operate on different levels of magnitude within the atmosphere. Howevere, many hurricanes spawn tornadoes in their outer storm bands.
In what percent of thunderstorms do tornadoes occur?
About 1% of thunderstorms produce tornadoes.
What type of storm could cause tornadoes?
Most tornadoes are associated with a type of storm called a supercell.
What type of storm often brings tornadoes?
Tornadoes are most often spawned by a type of storm called a supercell.
What is a mesoscale convective system?
A mesoscale convective system is a larger scale complex of thunderstorms.
Which way does air converge on a cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere?
Most spin clockwise, but not all of them. Tornadoes are on the margin of the scale at which the Coriolis Force operates, so under certain conditions tornadoes can rotate against the weak Coriolis Force that exists at the mesoscale. I believe the percentage of tornadoes that do this is around 10.
What is most Violent storm?
Tornadoes
What kind of storm is normally associated with tornadoes?
Supercells are normally associated with tornadoes.
What are the scientists called that chase tornadoes?
People who study tornadoes are a type of meteorologist.
Who studies tornadoes today?
Tornadoes are studied by meteorologist, some of whom are storm chasers.
Is a tornado the largest and strongest storm?
The strongest tornadoes produce the fastest winds of any storm on earth, but tornadoes are small compared to most storms.
What are tornadoes the smallest but most violent?
Tornadoes are smaller compared with other storms because they are generated by processes at the microscale and lower end of the mesoscale of weather events. In other words, storm features less than a mile to just a few miles in size.Wind speed is largely determined by how much the pressure drops in a given distance. The greater the pressure difference in a give space, the greater the wind speed. Tornadoes produce a significant pressure drop at their centers, comparable to the pressure deficits of hurricanes, but over a much shorter distance.
Are tornadoes always the rear of a storm?
No, tornadoes can form in different parts of a storm system, including the rear but also in the front or along the edges. Tornadoes are typically associated with severe thunderstorms and can develop wherever the conditions are right for their formation within the storm.
What do you call a tornadoes and a lightning storm together?
A storm that includes both tornadoes and lightning is called a supercell thunderstorm. These powerful storms can produce both tornadoes and frequent lightning strikes due to the intense atmospheric conditions they create.
