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If a tornado warning is issued and you live in a trailer leave it for more suitable shelter, preferably one with access to a basement or cellar.
What else can I help you with?
Do tornadoes mostly occur in trallier parks?
No. Tornadoes do not hit trailer parks more than any other place. However, a tornado that hits a trailer park is more likely to be a major news story because it is more likely to cause serious damage and fatalities. Most trailers are poorly built and can be destroyed by even a fairly weak tornado while it takes a pretty strong tornado to shred most houses. And weak tornadoes are more common than strong ones.
Could the Joplin tornado of 2011 have been avoided?
No. While a better warning system might have resulted in a lower death toll, there is no way of preventing a tornado or controlling where it hits.
Are tornadoes more likely to hit trailer parks than other communites?
No. Trailer parks are no more likely to be hit than any other patch of land of the same size. However, because trailer homes are weakly built and often not tied down, they are more easily destroyed. A trailer home can be completely destroyed by a tornado that would only remove the roof of a typical site-built house. The means that a tornado that hits a trailer park will generally cause more severe damage and is more likely to kill or seriously injure people and therefore more likely to attract media attention.
What happenswhen a lightning bolt hits a raging tornado?
Nothing happens. The lightning will not affect the tornado.
When will be the next quiet tornado?
First of all, tornadoes are not quiet. It may be quiet before a tornado hits, but not in the tornado itself. Second, it is impossible to predict when or where the next tornado will hit.
What number should you call if a tornado hits?
911
What would happen if a tornado hits a hurricane?
A tornado cannot "hit" a hurricane as they operate on entirely different scales. A hurricane is its own large-scale storm system while a tornado is a small-scale vortex that occurs within a storm system. In fact, it is not uncommon for hurricanes to produce tornadoes.
What happens before the tornado hits the ground?
Before a tornado hits the ground, a rotating column of air forms in the storm cloud known as a funnel cloud. This funnel cloud extends towards the ground, and once it makes contact, the tornado is then officially considered to have touched down.
What is the average amount of warning before tornado hits?
The average lead time for a tornado warning is 14 minutes.
Are tornadoes attracted to mobile homes?
No the path of a tornado is governed by the path of the storm from which it is formed, not structures on the ground. Mobile homes are weaker and therefore more easily destroyed than frame homes. A tornado that hits a trailer park is more likely to cause major damage then it would in a subdivision of frame homes and therefore more likely to make news headlines. However, there are locations (tornado alleys) where tornadoes are known to hit repeatedly.
What do you do with your pet if a tornado hits?
Take the pet with you to the shelter you are going to.
What happens when a tornado hits a valley?
The tornado is not affected. It will continue though the valley as it would over any other terrain.
