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What causes a tornado's rotation?
The rotation originate from the speed and direction of the wind changing with altitude. This sets air rolling horizontally. This horizontal rolling can be turn vertical by the updraft of a thunderstorm. This can then tighten and intensify to form a tornado.
What happens as a tornado forms?
Most tornadoes originate for a vortex called a mesocyclone, a rotating updraft found in some thunderstorms, particularly supercells. A downdraft from the rear portion of the thunderstorm wrap around the mesocyclone, causing it to tighten and stretch toward the ground. In the process it intensifies. When this tighter circulation reaches the ground it becomes a tornado. At this point air can no longer flow into it from below, causing the pressure inside to drop, causing the winds in the newly formed tornado to intensify.
What is a satellite tornado?
A satellite tornado is a tornado that touches down near and usually orbits a larger tornado within the same mesocyclone.
What is a cone shaped tornado?
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.
What forms the shape of a tornado?
a tornado is formed by a thunderstorm
What country did the word tornado originate from?
=It originated in America.=
Where did the Chicago tornado in 2009 originate?
There were no tornadoes in Chicago in 2009.
Where did the word tornado originate from?
Maybe from the word tore or like a rip. Because tornados rip and tear things Kennedy age 11
What causes a tornado's rotation?
The rotation originate from the speed and direction of the wind changing with altitude. This sets air rolling horizontally. This horizontal rolling can be turn vertical by the updraft of a thunderstorm. This can then tighten and intensify to form a tornado.
How do you say tornado in Portuguese?
tornado in Portuguese is tornado too
Can you stop a tornado with another tornado?
No, it is not possible to stop a tornado with another tornado. Tornadoes are formed by specific weather conditions in the atmosphere, and introducing another tornado would not have any effect on the existing tornado.
What is a name for a tornado?
a tornado?
What does spawn a tornado mean?
When a storm spawns a tornado it produce a tornado.
What is a 7 letter word for a violent storm?
Tornado.
If a tornado have been seen is that a tornado watch?
No, a tornado watch is issued when the general weather conditions can produces tornadoes. If a tornado is spotted a tornado warning is issued.
Did Baltimore have a tornado before?
Yes. Baltimore was hit by an F2 tornado in 1973, an F0 tornado in 1996, an EF1 tornado in 2010, and an EF0 tornado in 2013.
What happens as a tornado forms?
Most tornadoes originate for a vortex called a mesocyclone, a rotating updraft found in some thunderstorms, particularly supercells. A downdraft from the rear portion of the thunderstorm wrap around the mesocyclone, causing it to tighten and stretch toward the ground. In the process it intensifies. When this tighter circulation reaches the ground it becomes a tornado. At this point air can no longer flow into it from below, causing the pressure inside to drop, causing the winds in the newly formed tornado to intensify.
