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Depends on how you define a tornado. If your definition is a swirling mess of dust and ground debris, then yes. But a true tornado is attached to the cloud base in the updraft section of a storm. A gust front is an outflow of cold air from the downdraft part of the storm. Associated with a Gust front is low, fast-moving clouds and extreme straight-line winds. In a gust-front, the clouds are usually not attached to the cloud base. Due to the straight line winds, debris can be picked off the ground and spin in the air. These are called gust-nadoes. These gust-nadoes are usually quite weak like you said, but are not classified as actual tornadoes. These gust-nadoes are about as equivalent to a dust devil found in dry regions, or other wind caused swirls.
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What kind of front is associated with the formation of tornadoes?
Tornadoes frequently form along cold fronts and dry lines. Occasionally they may form along warm fronts. Some tornadoes form from thunderstorms not associated with any fronts.
Do tornadoes form from thunderstorms?
Yes. Tornadoes form from thunderstorms, usually supercells.
Do tornadoes form from thunderclouds?
Yes. Tornadoes form from thunderstorms.
What types of fronts bring thunderstorms?
Tornadoes do not necessarily need any sort of front. Tornadoes will most often form along either a cold front or a dry line, but can on occasion form along a warm front. Hurricanes, which are not associated with fronts at all, often produce tornadoes. Air mass thunderstorms can also produce tornadoes on rare occasions.
What type of front can create violent thunder storms and even tornadoes?
Cold fronts are most often associated with severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, but such storms can form along warm fronts, stationary fronts, and dry lines.
Do tornadoes form in a cyclone?
Most tornadoes form from thunderstorms along a front associated with a cyclone, but most cyclones do not produce tornadoes.
What kind of front is associated with the formation of tornadoes?
Tornadoes frequently form along cold fronts and dry lines. Occasionally they may form along warm fronts. Some tornadoes form from thunderstorms not associated with any fronts.
Can a front cause a tornado?
Yes. Tornadoes most often are produced by the thunderstorms that form along cold fronts.
What front brings stormy weather like tornadoes?
Thunderstorms and tornadoes most often form along cold fronts but they can form along dry lines and, on rare occasions, warm fronts. Some may form in the absence of any front.
What weather patterns are nessary for a tornado to occur?
Tornadoes require wind shear and thunderstorms (which can form under a number of circumstances) to occur. Typically the strong thunderstorms needed for tornadoes to occur form along a dry line or cold front. Tornadoes very often form where a cold front and dry line intersect.
What do thunderstorms have to do with Tornadoes?
Tornadoes need thunderstorms to form.
Do tornadoes form from thunderstorms?
Yes. Tornadoes form from thunderstorms, usually supercells.
Are tornadoes thunderstorms?
No. Tornadoes are violent whirlwinds that can form during thunderstorms.
What front do tornadoes occur in?
Tornadoes most often form along a cold front, but do occasionally form along warm fronts.
Can thunderstorms form along a cold front?
yes
Do tornadoes form from thunderclouds?
Yes. Tornadoes form from thunderstorms.
Do tornadoes form at the boundaries?
Very often they do. Tornadoes typically form along from thunderstorms that occur along or near a cold front (where cold air pushes into warm air) or dry line (where dry air pushes into moist air). However tornadoes can also form in the absence of boundaries such as in the outer rain bands of a hurricane.
