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Damage is done to varying degrees depending on the intensity of the tornado on the Fujita scale.

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What happens when a tornado hits the ground?

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.


If a lighting strike hits a tornado what happens?

If lightning strikes a tornado, it can increase the intensity of the tornado but doesn't fundamentally change its behavior. Instead, the tornado may briefly light up and become more visible. Lightning hitting a tornado is a rare occurrence due to the unpredictability of both weather phenomena.


Is there going to be a tornado in Orlando Florida?

It is inevitable that Orlando will eventually have a tornado, as it is in a tornado prone area. However we won't know when the next one will be until it actually happens.


What happens if a tornado strikes the ground?

When a tornado strikes the ground, it can cause significant damage by tearing apart structures, uprooting trees, and tossing debris at high speeds. Tornadoes can create a path of destruction that is several miles long and can be up to a mile wide. It is important to take shelter immediately in a sturdy building or underground if a tornado is approaching.


What happens when a tornado hits the water?

Some tornadoes break up when hitting a large body of water but some keep on going making a water tornado and occasionally picking up fish which later fall down and makes it seem as though it was raining fish. Then it turns pink and rotates faster. These are very dangerous so stay underground. These pink tornado's can also pick itself up and land near-by, as if it was jumping.

Related Questions

What happenswhen a lightning bolt hits a raging tornado?

Nothing happens. The lightning will not affect the tornado.


What happens when a tornado hits a valley?

The tornado is not affected. It will continue though the valley as it would over any other terrain.


What happens before the tornado hits the ground?

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.


What happens when a tornado hits meadow?

Trees and vegetation in the path of the tornado may be damage or destroyed. Exceptionally violent tornadoes may scour away grass and even soil.


What happens to living and non living things if a tornado happens?

The area in which the tornado happens can erode the area away cause the animals that lived there to have no home or die of the tornado


What happens if a tornado hits a car?

The car would be taken up in the air and destroyed and if your in the car then the chances of living is moderate


What happens before a tornado strikes?

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.


What happens when a tornado hits the ground?

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.


How do people survive when a tornado happens?

People are more likely to survive by taking adequate shelter in the basement or cellar of a sturdy building or in a specially designed tornado shelter. Beyond that survival is often a matter of chance of where the worst of the tornado hits or where a particular piece of debris goes.


What happens if your family dies in a tornado?

they die


WHAT HAPPENS FIRST IN THE STORY OF SNUGGLES?

The tornado


Can airplane get caught in a tornado?

Yes, normally this happens to planes on the ground when a tornado strikes an airport.