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Can a tornado form above the clouds pointing up?
No. Tornadoes descend from the base of thunderstorms, usually associated with very tall thunderstorms. The tornado begins in the lower portions of the storm. Furthermore, if the vortex does not touch the ground, it is not considered a tornado.
Can cumuolnibus clouds form a tornado?
Cumulonimbus clouds are capable of producing tornadoes, particularly when they are part of a severe thunderstorm system. The intense updrafts and downdrafts within cumulonimbus clouds can create the necessary conditions for tornado formation. When these conditions align, a tornado can develop and descend to the ground.
How can you see a tornado on satellite image?
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.
What must happen in the atmosphere for a thunderstorm to become a tornado?
A thunderstorm does not become a tornad; it produces one. To start off, in most cases the storm must encounter strong wind shear, or a shift in wind speed and direction with altitude. This sets the storm rotating, turning it into a supercell. If the storm develops in the right manner, a downdraft may descend from the rare portion of the storm and wrap around the mesocyclone, or rotating updraft of the storm. This causes the mesocyclone or a portion of it to tighten and intensify, forming a tornado.
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.
Can a tornado form above the clouds pointing up?
No. Tornadoes descend from the base of thunderstorms, usually associated with very tall thunderstorms. The tornado begins in the lower portions of the storm. Furthermore, if the vortex does not touch the ground, it is not considered a tornado.
How is a tornado fomred?
A tornado is formed when wind shear turns a storm into a supercell, a kinds of long-lived thunderstorm with a rotating updraft called a mesocyclone. Under the right conditions a downdraft may descend from the back of the storm and wrap around the mesocyclone, turning it into a tornado.
What is a tornado before it is a tornado?
Before a tornado touches down it is called a funnel cloud, which looks like a tornado but does not reach the ground. A funnel cloud develops from the mesocyclone of a supercell thunderstorm. A supercell thunderstorm is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone, which is a deep, continuously-rotating updraft.
Can cumuolnibus clouds form a tornado?
Cumulonimbus clouds are capable of producing tornadoes, particularly when they are part of a severe thunderstorm system. The intense updrafts and downdrafts within cumulonimbus clouds can create the necessary conditions for tornado formation. When these conditions align, a tornado can develop and descend to the ground.
How does air spiral in a tornado?
In most cases in the northern hemisphere, air spirals counter-clockwise around a tornado and sucks upward in the core center of the tornado. This is typically clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
What is the prefix for descend?
The prefix for descend is "de-".
Make a sentence on word 'descend'?
She would descend down the stairs at midnight.
What part of speech is the word descend?
Descend is a verb.
What happens during stage 1 of a tornado when it is called a supercell?
First of all, the tornado is not called a supercell in the initial phases. The supercell is the larger thunderstorm that produces the tornado; it is not the tornado itself. In a supercell there is a rotating area of low pressure, primarily within the updraft portion of the storm, called a mesocyclone. At the most intense portion of the mesocyclone there is a rotating, low-hanging cloud called a wall cloud. Conditions within the thunderstorm cause a portion of the mesocyclone to tighten and intensify, and the circulation of the tornado begins to develop and descend toward the ground from the wall cloud.
What is the opposite of fall or descend?
Fall-Rise Descend- Ascend
What is past tense of descend?
The past tense of descend is descended.
How could you use descend in a sentence?
I descend down the stairs.
