The families that endure tornadoes may never heal from devistation.
Houses may never look the same.
Prize pocesstions never will be the same.
Life itself won't be the same.....
Once A tornado hits it doesn't have PERMANENT damage.
Most damage in a tornado is caused by the extremely fast winds.
The greatest amount of damage in a tornado is caused by extremely strong winds. Additional damage is from flying debris.
Tornado damaged is caused by a tornado's powerful winds and objects carried y those winds.
The Joplin tornado caused about $2.8 billion worth of damage to the city of Joplin.
The largest tornado even recorded caused about $160 million dollars in damage, but keep in mind this wasn't the most damaging tornado or the strongest. The tornado with the strongest recorded winds caused $1 billion in damage (about $1.3 billion in today's dollars). The most damaging tornado recorded caused the equivalent of $1.7 billion in today's dollars.
The size of a tornado, or its width is determined by how wide the area of damage is. The rating of a tornado, which is not dependent on size (though there is some correlation) is based on the severity of the damage caused.
Most of the damage caused by tornadoes is the result of extremely powerful winds.
The Fujita and Enhanced Fujita scales assesses damage caused by a tornado to assign a rating.
The tornado that cause the most damage on record touched down on May 22, 2011. It struck Joplin, Missouri causing $2.8 billion in damage.
The May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak caused extensive damage, particularly in Oklahoma, where an F5 tornado resulted in 36 fatalities and over 600 injuries. Thousands of homes were destroyed, and the total damage was estimated to be in the billions of dollars.
The strength of a tornado is determined by the damage it does to man-made structures and vegetation. When a structure takes damage from a tornado, the degree of damage, the type of structure, and its quality of construction are used to estimate the strength of the winds that caused that damage. This is then used to sort the tornado into one of six intensity categories of the Enhanced Fujita Scale, ranging from EF0 at the weakest to EF5 at the strongest.