That depends on the size of the town and how fast the tornado is traveling. The average tornado travels at about 30 mph, so it takes two minutes to travel a mile. However, some tornadoes barely move along while some travel at over 60 mph (a mile every minute).
The tornado ripped through town, destroying many homes.
Usually a tornado can't destroy an entire town. When it does happen in will involve a very large, very strong tornado striking a very small town. In cases like this the town in question would probably be destroyed in about 5 minutes or less. Beyond that most towns would be too large to be completely covered by a tornado.
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The weather reporter announced that we would have a tornado sometime in the afternoon. We learned about tornadoes today. Tornadoes are deadly. There was a tornado warning on the news today. Did you hear about the tornado in Kentucky yesterday? Hope this helps! Peace out~Tj8rocks
Time = Distance/Speed = 15 miles / 30 miles an hour = 1/2 hours = 30 minutesHowever, tornadoes do not always move in a straight line so or the tornado may not hit that town.
It is impossible to make long term predictions of whether or when a specific location will have a tornado. When we do determine that a town or city is going to be hit, the time to the tornado's impact is measured in minutes.
In most cases the worst of a tornado would passover a house in a few seconds, and through a city in a few minutes. A house may take weeks or months to repair, or may simply never by rebuilt. In the case of especially devastating tornadoes, a city can take years to recover, and some never do.For example, after a large portion of the town of Greensburg, Kansas was destroyed by a tornado in 2007 many people did not rebuild. Since then about half the town's population has moved away.
The Waco tornado occurred in the town of Waco, Texas.
A Tornado can destroy a village or a small town in a matter of minutes.
The deadliest tornado in U.S. history struck many towns in three states along a damage path 219 miles long. In Missouri the tornado devastated the town Annapolis. It then continued into Illinois where the towns of Gorham, Musphysboro, De Soto, Hurst-Bush, Frankfort, and Parrish. Finally the tornado crossed into Indiana where it devastated the towns of Griffin, Owensville, and Princeton. The town worst hit by this tornado was Musphysboro, Illinois, where 234 of the tornado's 695 deaths occurred.
Take cover in a nearby sturdy building in a room with no windows and preferably no exterior walls.
No. A tornado is a localized event, usually not affecting more than a town or two. A tornado may lead to people leaving a town, or sometimes a tornado-prone region, but not usually a country. For example, many people left the small town of Greensburg, Kansas after most of it was destroyed by a tornado in 2007, but they all stayed in the United States.