Air at ground level will then spiral into the tornado and reach great speeds. Any buildings or trees the tornado hits will be damaged or destroyed by the winds.
If you mean the debris being carried by a tornado, if it hasn't already been thrown out of the tornado it simply gets dropped to the ground once the tornado is no longer strong enough to carry it.
A tornado that doesn't touch the ground isn't a tornado; it is a funnel cloud. However if the funnel is pulling debris off the ground or making some other type of contact with the ground it is a tornado.
A funnel cloud that touches the ground is commonly known as a tornado.
When a tornado hits the ground, it can cause significant destruction by uprooting trees, damaging buildings, and tossing debris into the air. The swirling winds can reach extreme speeds, creating a wide path of devastation in its wake.
It would be highly unusual for a tornado to strike an area where there is snow on the ground. Tornadoes generally occur during periods of warm weather. If such an event were to occur it would be little different from a tornado striking under ordinary circumstances. The tornado would likely lift some snow into the air, but that would be of little to no consequence compared with the damage tornadoes usually inflict.
Yes, normally this happens to planes on the ground when a tornado strikes an airport.
Before a tornado hits the ground, a rotating column of air forms in the storm cloud known as a funnel cloud. This funnel cloud extends towards the ground, and once it makes contact, the tornado is then officially considered to have touched down.
It varies but most often it stops raining a few minutes beforehand. A break in the clouds may be seen, a sign of a downdraft that helps the tornado form. A number of tornado survivors recall it being unusually quite just before the tornado hits.
When surface winds slow down in a tornado due to ground friction, the tornado may weaken or dissipate altogether. This is because a tornado's strength is dependent on the fast rotation of air at the surface, so when this rotation slows down, the tornado's intensity is reduced.
It can get quite, but not always. On a number of occasions people have reported an eerie silence before a tornado strikes. However, in other cases, the storm keeps on raging even as the tornado strikes.
Crops can be flattened by tornadoes. In some cases the plants may be pulled out of the ground.
A coastal tornado is a tornado that strikes a coastal area. If the tornado moves over water at any point it is called a waterspout for that time.
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Yes. In most cases a warning is issued before a tornado strikes.
If you mean the debris being carried by a tornado, if it hasn't already been thrown out of the tornado it simply gets dropped to the ground once the tornado is no longer strong enough to carry it.
When a tornado forms, violent rotating winds reach ground level, often kicking up a cloud of dust in the process.
A tornado that does not touch the ground is a funnel cloud.