In many cases, yes. Tornadoes are often made visible by a condensation funnel and a cloud of dust and debris they kick up. In some cases, however, a tornado may be hidden from view by rain or the dark of night.
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.
Yes. The rotation of a tornado can be detected using doppler radar. Additionally, many tornadoes can be seen with the naked eye.
Gustnadoes are brief, generally weak tornadoes that typically form along the gust front of a thunderstorm or in the outflow boundary of a storm. They are not connected to the primary rotating updraft of a supercell thunderstorm, unlike traditional tornadoes, and are often seen as horizontal vortices along the leading edge of thunderstorm outflow winds.
You can't. Tornadoes descend from thunderstorms, and so cannot be seen from above. You can, however, see the thunderstorms in a satellite image. See the link below for a satellite time lapse of storms tha produce tornadoes.
No. Tornadoes do not damage the atmosphere.
Of course tornadoes have been seen. They're not invisible. in fact, they're huge. You can see videos of tornadoes if you do a YouTube search.
Yes. The state has seen a number of major outbreaks with tornadoes as strong as F4.
Yes. Although not as common as in Tornado Alley, tornadoes are fairly common in Ohio. The state has even seen several F5 tornadoes.
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.
Tornadoes are most common in the central and eastern parts of Mississippi. The frequency of strong tornadoes in those areas rivals that in parts of Tornado Alley.
Yes, Memphis has seen tornadoes as strong as F3.
# You could get a book from the library. # Search google (internet). # Read more about them on wikianswers. # Talk to some friends that have seen tornadoes. # Read a magazine about them.
Yes. They are not very common. But NYC has seen a few weak tornadoes, including one killer tornado in 2010.
No, tornadoes are not seen at occluded fronts. Occluded fronts occur when a warm air mass meets a cold air mass, followed by another cold air mass. They bring cool temperatures and precipitation.
No. Tornadoes descend from very large parent thunderstorms. If you were to try to see a tornado from space the parent thunderstorm would block it from view. Additionally, many tornadoes are very brief, too brief to orient a satellite.
Cities that are inland are safe from hurricanes, but just about no place habitable to humans is immune to tornadoes. However in the U.S. west of the Rockies strong tornadoes are rare. Cities such as Phoenix and Los Angeles have seen tornadoes in the general vicinity, but they are almost invariably weak.
Tornadoes can strike 24 hours a day, but I have seen published statistics that state that 70% of tornadoes occur between 4 PM and 7 PM.