A mesocyclone is a rotating updraft within a thunderstorm, usually a supercell. Under the right conditions a mesocyclone will tighten and intensify to produce a tornado. The majority of tornadoes form this way.
I think the word you're looking for is "vortex".
A supercell is a powerful thunderstorm with a strong, rotating updraft called a mesocyclone. They don't so much develop into tornadoes as they produce them. How they do this is not fully understood, but it is believed that moist of the time a downdraft called a rear-flank downdraft or RFD wraps around the bottom part of the mesocyclone, tightening and intensifying it to form a tornado.
A thunderstorm does not become a tornado, it producesone.In order to produce a tornado a storm first needs a strong, rotating updraft called a mesocyclone. A storm with this feature is called a supercell. The rotation in a mesocyclone the tightens, intensifies, and extends towards the ground, becoming a tornado.How this intensification occurs is not fully understood, but it is believed that a downdraft at least plays a role by wrapping around the mesocyclone and forcing it into a tighter circulation.
A supercell tornado is a tornado that forms from thunderstorm called a supercell. A supercell is a powerful thunderstorm that has a strong rotating updraft called a mesocyclone. Supercells are the strongest thunderstorms on earth. Most strong tornadoes are supercell tornadoes.
First, you need a special kind of thunderstorm called a supercell. A supercell is a thunderstorm with a powerful, rotating updraft called a mesocyclone. As the storm gets stronger a downdraft may descend from the back of the storm. This is called a rear-flank downdraft or RFD. The RFD wraps around the mesocyclone causing it to tighten, intensify, and extend towards the ground, becoming a tornado. This is a somewhat simplified explanation. There are other factors that scientists still don't fully understand.
No, the mesocyclone is the larger circulation that the tornado forms from. It can sometimes be seen as a lowering of the cloud base called a wall cloud.
Yes. Most tornadoes develop from the mesocyclone of a supercell.
Before a tornado touches down it is called a funnel cloud, which looks like a tornado but does not reach the ground. A funnel cloud develops from the mesocyclone of a supercell thunderstorm. A supercell thunderstorm is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone, which is a deep, continuously-rotating updraft.
A satellite tornado is a tornado that touches down near and usually orbits a larger tornado within the same mesocyclone.
The mesocyclone developed from horizontally rolling air that get caught in the updraft of a thunderstorm and turned vertical.
A tornado is formed when wind shear turns a storm into a supercell, a kinds of long-lived thunderstorm with a rotating updraft called a mesocyclone. Under the right conditions a downdraft may descend from the back of the storm and wrap around the mesocyclone, turning it into a tornado.
A tornado usually forms from a mesocyclone, which occurs in the updraft or rear portion of some thunderstorms.
I think the word you're looking for is "vortex".
Tornadoes form during thunderstorms that occur when there is strong difference, meaning a significant difference between winds at low and high levels. The thunderstorm has updraft (upward moving air) and downdraft (downward moving air) regions. The tornado forms in a rotating part of the updraft called a mesocyclone. A downdraft wraps around the mesocyclone, causing it to tighten and intensify into a tornado.
Basically. A wall cloud is a a visible portion of the mesocyclone of a supercell. The mesocyclone is the the rotating part of a supercell that can produce a tornado.
A supercell is a powerful thunderstorm with a strong, rotating updraft called a mesocyclone. They don't so much develop into tornadoes as they produce them. How they do this is not fully understood, but it is believed that moist of the time a downdraft called a rear-flank downdraft or RFD wraps around the bottom part of the mesocyclone, tightening and intensifying it to form a tornado.
Never. A downspout is completely different from a tornado. It is a pipe that drains water from a rain gutter. A tornado on water is called a waterspout. A tornado that forms without a mesocyclone is a landspout.