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People have been carried 4 miles or more by tornadoes. The greatest distance a person has been carried and survivedwas about a quarter mile.

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What does a tornado taste like?

A tornado doesn't really taste like anything. However, they are often described as smelling like a mix of rain and fresh cut wood.


Is a subway a safe place during a tornado?

No, it is not safe to be in a subway during a tornado. It is important to seek shelter in a designated tornado shelter or in an underground area away from the storm's path. Subways may flood or suffer structural damage during extreme weather events.


What happens if you got caught in a tornado?

It depends on how intense the tornado is. If it is an EF-0 tornado, it probably wouldn't even pick you up off the ground. If it were an EF-3 tornado, you will get tossed around up and down, and side to side. Usually, tornadoes don't throw people very high, just a few meters off the ground. If it were an EF-5 tornado, your chances of survival are very, very slim. But people have lived through them. In an EF-5 tornado, the winds can reach and surpass 250 mph. These ferocious winds will toss you like a paper airplane. The debris in all tornadoes is a threat, but debris in an EF-5 tornado are going much faster than you could think possible. Cars can be thrown over half a mile. You would be lucky to survive a tornado of this intensity. You do not twirl up and out of a tornado, the winds cannot take you up that far. Yes, they can throw you a distance from where you originally began. The most likely case is being tossed around in all kinds of directions, with debris flying by you.


What do you do if you get stuck in a tornado?

Seek shelter. If you can get yourself underground, that's the best place to be. Although many people assume overpasses provide a safe haven this is far from the truth; they are by far the worst place to be as a large tornado will easily suck you out. See related links for video of the infamous 1991 tornado in which a group survived a small tornado under an overpass, and a link to tornado myths.


How far can you hear a tornado alarm?

Tornado sirens or alarms are designed so that they can be heard at least five miles away. Tornado sirens are placed in cities and towns and rural areas so that people can be warned well in advance of a tornado.

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How far can an EF3 tornado throw a car?

An EF3 tornado could probably throw a car a few tens of yards. It could probably move a car a few hundred yards by bouncing and rolling it.


How far is the most a tornado can throw a smart car?

It is not known. Small vehicles can be carried well over a mile.


How could tornadoes kill people?

A tornado has different ways it can kill you.. It can pick you up from the ground and throw you some where, it can fling houses, cars, anything at you and kill you..


When a tornado forms how far can it throw a house?

Most tornadoes are not strong enough to throw houses. Those few that are strong enough can sometimes thrown them great distances. In one case a houses was thrown 1/4 mile. However, when a house is picked up there is a good chance it will disintegrate in the air, in which case it won't be thrown so much as it will be scattered.


What is the heaviest thing an EF3 tornado can throw and how far?

EF3 tornadoes have been known to toss train cars, though usually no more than a few yards.


How far can monkeys throw their poop?

really far they can throw as far 200 metres


Where was the hardest tornado so far?

The hardest tornado was in Texas, USA.


Would you rather ride a tsunami OR ride a tornado?

a tsunami for sure, a tornado is just going to throw me to the united states, riding a tsunami has better chances of living than a tornado


How far does Matt hasselbeck throw?

Not as far as me.


How far can cam newton throw?

far


What does a tornado transport?

Anything that it picks up.


What would happen if you exploded a powerful bomb in the center of a large tornado?

For a massive wedge tornado, anything short of a nuclear bomb would probably not do much. A nuclear bomb would probably disrupt it, but at the same time would cause far more damage than the tornado itself could.