How much damage can a tornado cause?

Answer 1

Surprisingly, typical damage is not all that severe. The majority of tornadoes are classified as EF0 or EF1. In these tornadoes, houses may lose some roof surface and siding. Weak structures such as sheds and barns may be destroyed Trees may be knocked down.

Some tornadoes are strong enough to destroy well-built houses, but these account for less than 5% of all recorded tornadoes.

Answer 2

They can cause,

1. EF0 minor to no damage
2. EF1 moderate damage
3. EF2 considerable damage
4. EF3 severe damage
5. EF4 devastating damage
6. EF5 incredible damage

It depends on the how strong the tornado is. Weak (F0 and F1) tornadoes mostly cause mild to severe roof damage, smash windows, break tree limbs and topple some trees.

Strong tornadoes (F2 and F3) can tear roofs and even walls from well built houses, obliterate trailers, rip trees out of the ground.

Violent tornadoes (F4 and F5) completely destroy most buildings, strip the bark from trees, and even tear asphalt from roads.

Answer 3

The severity of damage caused by a torndo can vary widley, and there is in fact a scale used to rate tornadoes based on that, called the Enhanced Fujita scale which has six levels ranging from EF0 to EF5. The rating is based on the most severe damage the tornado causes. Here are those categories with typical damage.

• EF0: Roofs lose some shingles. Poorly made rrofs may be badly damaged. Gutters, siding, and awnings may be peeled off. Tree limbs break and some trees may be toppled. Confirmed tornadoes that cause no damage are also rated EF0.

• EF1: Roofs of houses are badly damaged. Poorly secured roofs may be removed and very weak exterior walls may collapse. Trailer homes are overturned or severely damaged. Windows may break. Barns and garages may be destroyed.

• EF2: Roofs are torn from well-built houses. One or two exeterior walls may collapse. Trailer homes are completely demolished. Large trees are twisted and snapped. Barns and other outbuildings are completely destroyed.

• EF3: Roofs and walls fail in well-built houses. Two-story houses may lose their upper stories. Sometimes only a few walls are left standing. Poorly built houses may be leveled. Large vehicles may be lift off the ground. Steel power trusses and transmission towers collapse.
• EF4: Well-built houses are completely leveled. Less well-built ouses may be blown away. The few trees left standing are stripped of their bark. large objects can become high-speed projectiles. Asphalt may be peeled from roads.
• EF5: Well-built houses are completely swept away, leaving empty foundations. Steel reinforced structures are leveled. Debris is finey granulated. Severe ground scouring may occur.

Answer 4

Tornadoes have many weapons in their arsenal.The wind is a tornadoes primary weapon, but tornadoes can also do damage with debris carried by those winds. Depending on the strength of a tornado, it can cause very little damage to widespread destruction.

Damage from tornadoes can include broken glass, and loss of roof material, and snapped tree limbs in minor to moderate cases. Significant tornadoes can result in roofs and walls being torn from buildings, with weaker structures being flattened or blown away. Large trees can be pulled out of the ground or snapped at the trunk. In the most powerful tornadoes most buildings are destroyed and sometimes scattered downwind. The fer trees left standing are reduced to mere trunks stripped of their bark.

Answer 5

Tornadoes can cause damage to your home, your property, and all of your belongings. It can also damage people. People can die or get seriously injured. Tornadoes can be verydangerous.

Damage can include damage to the roof, windows, and siding and broken tree limbs in weak tornadoes; the removal of the roof and walls, in strong tornadoes, and complete destruction of well-built structure in the most violent of tornadoes.

Damage varies depending on intensity. The weakest and most common tornadoes are rated EF0, causing relatively minor damage such as removal of small sections of roof surface, broken tree limbs, and weak-rooted trees toppled Gutters and awnings may fall.

The strongest and rarest tornadoes are rated EF5. These tornadoes are absolutely devastating. Nearly anything struck by the full force of an EF5 will be completely destroyed. Houses are blown clean off their foundations, high rise buildings are deformed.

Some tornadoes stay in open fields and cause no damage, while others may cause just a few thousand dollars in damage. Unfortunately this is not always the case. When a very strong tornado hits a town it cause sometimes cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, with some straying upwards of $1 billion dollars.

Answer 6

Depends on the winds. EF0s can do little damage like roof shingles peeled off, EF1s can bend a garage door, break windows, and peel away a significant portion of a roof surface. EF2s can pick up cars, tear roofs from houses, and completely destroy trailers, EF3s can possibly destroy your home, collapsing walls sometimes leaving only a few walls standing. EF4s create devastating damage with well built houses completely leveled and bark peeled from trees, and EF5s; these are very rare, but cause utter devastation with well-built homes wiped clean of their foundations, sometimes leveling entire towns.

Answer 7

Depending on how strong it is a tornado can damage or destroy just about anything. Even a relatively weak tornado can topple trees, break windows, and tear off roof tiles.

In a very violent tornado little to nothing remains intact. Well built houses are completely obliterated, trees are uprooted and thrown or left as bare trunks stripped of their bark. High rise buildings collapse or suffer irreparable damage.

Answer 8

The damage depends on the intensity and can range from minor damage to total devastation.

At the lowest end of damage (EF0) tree limbs are broken and some trees are toppled. Small sections of roof surfaces may be tripped away with gutters, awnings, and vinyl siding taken down. Trailers may be overturned

Then next damage level, EF1 roofs are badly stripped of material and trailers are severely damaged. Windows break.

What is called significant damage begins at EF2 in which houses lose their roofs completely and trailers are completely destroyed.

An EF3 tornado causes severe damage. Houses are partially reduced to rubble as many, if not most of the interior and exterior walls collapse. Most trees will be uprooted by and EF3.

An EF4 causes devastating damage. Houses completely collapse and are left as piles of rubble. Trees are debarked.

An EF5 causes total devastation. Well-built houses disintegrate and are swept clean off their foundations. Asphalt may be peeled from roads.

Answer 9

Damage doesn't cause tornadoes. Tornadoes cause damage. Damage from tornadoes can range from downed trees and peeled shingles, to roofs torn off and trailers tipped apart, to well built houses blown away and entire neighborhoods leveled. This depends on the strength of the tornado.