No. A tornado is a microscale storm, as very few tornadoes get to be over 2 kilometers in diameter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
About 1% of thunderstorms produce tornadoes.
Most tornadoes are associated with a type of storm called a supercell.
Tornadoes are most often spawned by a type of storm called a supercell.
A mesoscale convective system is a larger scale complex of thunderstorms.
Tornadoes
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.
Supercells are normally associated with tornadoes.
People who study tornadoes are a type of meteorologist.
Tornadoes are studied by meteorologist, some of whom are storm chasers.
The strongest tornadoes produce the fastest winds of any storm on earth, but tornadoes are small compared to most storms.
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.
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.
The most powerful storm on earth are tornadoes and hurricanes!