Tornadoes usually last only a few minutes, some only for seconds. However, a few tornadoes can go for a couple of hours.
A satellite tornado is a tornado that touches down near and usually orbits a larger tornado within the same mesocyclone.
A cone-shaped tornado is simple a tornado whose funnel is cone-shaped. Tornado funnels may also appear rope-like, column-like, or appear wispy. The shape and size of a tornado do not necessarily indicate how strong the tornado is.
a tornado is formed by a thunderstorm
A tornado descends from the base of a thunderstorm.
The "eye" of a tornado is at the center of the funnel.
The Human Tornado is 28 years old (birthdate: May 1, 1983).
13 years old
Yes. Any animal can be killed by a tornado just as a person can.
The worst level a tornado can attain is F5 on the old Fujita scale or EF5 on the newer Enhanced Fujita scale.
We do not know. The Natchez tornado was in 1840, and it is hard to get reliable information from records that old. The tornado itself was probably an F4 or F5, which would put wind speeds in the range of 200 mph or more, but that does not indicate anything about how fast the tornado itself moved.
Warren Faidley never rode is bike into a tornado. He rode into a dust devil when he was 12.
The Hallam, Nebraska tornado only killed 1 person.
Tornado games involve destroying buildings and I would say that they are unsuitable for a ten year old. A better option would be the activities to do with tornadoes on the Discovery Channel website.
You could say that a tornado is a kind of very fast spinning wind that sometimes happens during a thunderstorm that can wreck houses.
Tornado sirens was an old technology in the United States. In this age of instant communication via cellphones and round the clock cable TV, when severe weather hits, the lives of many Americans are still partly dependent on the ear-splitting blasts from and old technology tornado sirens.
It is difficult to tell for certain. You may be able to eyball the distance if you can see it clearly, but that is not reliable enough to stake your personal safety on. Tornado warning will often call out the location of a tornado relative to one or two communities, which gives an idea of how far away a tornado might be. However, a warning can be several minutes old by the time you read it, which is enough time for a tornado to move a few miles.
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