How do tornadoes dissipate? The details are still debated by tornado scientists. We do know tornadoes need a source of instability (heat, moisture, etc.) and a larger-scale property of rotation (vorticity) to keep going. There are a lot of processes around a thunderstorm which can possibly rob the area around a tornado of either instability or vorticity. One is relatively cold outflow -- the flow of wind out of the precipitation area of a shower or thunderstorm. Many tornadoes have been observed to go away soon after being hit by outflow. For decades, storm observers have documented the death of numerous tornadoes when their parent circulations ( mesocyclones) weaken after they become wrapped in outflow air -- either from the same thunderstorm or a different one. The irony is that some kinds of thunderstorm outflow may help to cause tornadoes, while other forms of outflow may kill tornadoes.
Tornadoes typically move in the direction of the prevailing winds, but they can also change direction due to the local terrain. Tornadoes can move downhill if the conditions are right, but it is not common.
No, most tornadoes in the southern hemisphere rotate clockwise. Additionally, some tornadoes, called anticyclonic tornadoes, rotate clockwise in the northern hemisphere. Fewer than 1% of tornadoes are anticyclonic.
Tornadoes do not directly benefit soil. In fact, tornadoes can be destructive, causing soil erosion by displacing and removing topsoil. The aftermath of a tornado may require soil remediation efforts to restore soil health and fertility.
Tornadoes in the northern hemisphere usually rotate counterclockwise, while tornadoes in the southern hemisphere typically rotate clockwise. This is due to the Earth's rotation and the Coriolis effect.
Tornadoes can be devastating to vegetation and man-made structures, but the ground itself is usually not affected in any significant way except in the most violent tornadoes. In rare cases tornadoes can be stroung enough to scour away the soil.
To get away from debris.
No. Tornadoes, some of them very large and violent, have torn through heavily forested areas unhindered. Even weak tornadoes can snap and uproot trees. In fact one of the largest tornadoes ever recorded struck a forested area.
Generally not. Tornadoes are generally to rare and too localized to have a significant affect on species. If a species is threatened by a tornado it is likely on the verge of extinction anyway.
Tornadoes do often kill birds, though they can survive, especially if the tornado isn't very strong.
Sometimes tornadoes can evade radar detection. This most often happens if the tornado is short lived, and thus is missed as the radar beam rotates, or occurs far away from the radar. Fortunately this occurs less often with strong tornadoes.
No. Hurricanes often wash away beaches but tornadoes, which are not primary a coastal phenomenon, do not cause any significant beach erosion.
Tornadoes have caused bridges to collapse on a number of occasions. In some cases pieces of bridges have been carried away by tornadoes.
Tornadoes can cause houses and other buildings to collapse, but most are not strong enough to do that. A typical tornado can tear away parts of roofs, break windows, and topple trees. Entire roofs and walls can go airborne in stronger tornadoes. Weak structures impacted by strong tornadoes often get blown away rather than collapsing. In very violent tornadoes the same thing can happen to well constructed houses.
In one sense, you could say they do. In the most violent tornadoes houses are said to be swept away.
No. A tornado that meets a body of water will continue out onto it without being significantly affected, becoming a tornadic waterspout.
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They can. The belief that hills stop tornadoes is a complete myth.