depends on the strength of it. if your sheltered, you should be fine. but if your outside during a tornado it's possible.
**The odds are good if you are caught without cover underground in a F3 tornado. You do not actually get sucked up but blown away in the strong wind. Reports say that the actual danger does not come from being carried away by the winds but having being hit by large flying stuff picked up also.
The famous pair who were sucked up in their house by a tornado in their sleep are the characters Dorothy and Toto from the movie "The Wizard of Oz". In the movie, they were swept away to the magical land of Oz.
Most tornadoes don't pick up, kill , or injure anyone. When it does happen it is usually no more than a few people; most tornado deaths are from being hit o crushed by debris. Exact figure are difficult to determine as this is not the sort of thing of which extensive records are kept.
Dorothy and Toto
A tornado has low pressure at its center and a powerful updraft. As a result air rapidly rushes inward and upward, sometimes carrying things with it.
If you are picked up by a tornado it is most likely that you will be thrown by it and most likely die on impact. However, in a few cases people have survived being carried by tornadoes with only minor injuries.
Air in and near a tornado spirals inward and upward very rapidly. The strong winds can pick up objects to carry with them.
The tornado sucked the car right up into the air. The vortex below those rapids sucked my canoe right out from under me!
Dorothy and Toto
Air is continuously moving up in a tornado. This means that air surrounding the tornado must move in to replace the rising air.
The famous pair who were sucked up in their house by a tornado in their sleep are the characters Dorothy and Toto from the movie "The Wizard of Oz". In the movie, they were swept away to the magical land of Oz.
Most tornadoes don't pick up, kill , or injure anyone. When it does happen it is usually no more than a few people; most tornado deaths are from being hit o crushed by debris. Exact figure are difficult to determine as this is not the sort of thing of which extensive records are kept.
Dorothy and Toto
A tornado has low pressure at its center and a powerful updraft. As a result air rapidly rushes inward and upward, sometimes carrying things with it.
Objects get sucked up into a tornado due to the low pressure at the center of the vortex, which creates a strong upward suction force. This force can lift and carry debris, dust, and even larger objects into the funnel cloud.
If you are picked up by a tornado it is most likely that you will be thrown by it and most likely die on impact. However, in a few cases people have survived being carried by tornadoes with only minor injuries.
That can help, but there are better things you can do to increase you chances of survival. The biggest danger in a tornado is not being sucked up but being hit by debris. The best idea is to get to the lowest floor of a sturdy building, especially and undergroudn basement or cellar. Try to put as many walls between yourself and the outside as possible.
You don't go anywhere in particular. Anything that gets picked up by a tornado usually gets deposited somewhere later along its track. Lighter objects tend to travel farther.