It usually takes at least an F4 tornado to flatten houses.
Tornadoes can destroy as much houses as it can depending on the length of their path. Most tornadoes are too weak to destroy houses, causing mostly superficial damage. However, in the works cases a tornado can destroy thousands of houses.
No, houses are more likely to be damaged by the strong winds and flying debris associated with a tornado rather than from the low air pressure. Most houses are not airtight enough for the pressure differences caused by a tornado to make them explode.
First, it's Greensburg, not Greensboro. That tornado occurred on May 4, 2007.
No. It was once believed that the low pressure inside a tornado would cause houses to explode, but this notion was disproven by the 1990s. It is the wind and debris in a tornado that destroys houses, not the low pressure.
Potentially an EF5 tornado can destroy thousands of houses. However the measure of a tornado's intensity is not based on the quantity of damage but by the severity of damage. For an EF5 tornado the general indicator is well built houses that are completely removed from their foundations and blown downwind. Some F5/EF5 tornadoes have torn across rural areas, destroying only a few homes. But some of those that were destroyed were completely obliterated.
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Tornadoes can destroy as much houses as it can depending on the length of their path. Most tornadoes are too weak to destroy houses, causing mostly superficial damage. However, in the works cases a tornado can destroy thousands of houses.
An F3 tornado will destroy most trees and leave most houses partially destroyed. An F5 tornado will completely destroy most structures, debark, trees, and send them airborne.
No, houses are more likely to be damaged by the strong winds and flying debris associated with a tornado rather than from the low air pressure. Most houses are not airtight enough for the pressure differences caused by a tornado to make them explode.
The Tri-State tornado destroyed about 15,000 homes.
Example: A tornado can knock over houses and spoil towns and villages.
Depends entirely on how strong it is. Weak tornadoes could barely do any damage, maybe to the roof...EF-5 tornado could flatten it.
On its own, tornado is simply a noun. As with any noun, whether it is the subject or the object depends on how it is used in the sentence. In this sentence, "tornado" is the subject while "houses" is the object: "The tornado destroyed several houses." In this one, "tornadoes" is the object: "I saw a tornado."
First, it's Greensburg, not Greensboro. That tornado occurred on May 4, 2007.
No. The pressure drop inside a tornado is not large enough for this to happen. Tornadoes tear houses apart with the power of their wind.
Cataclysmic tornado trampling everything in its pathCatastrophic, towering tornado overwhelming the small townTurbulent tornado, tossing houses like twigs
Yes. A tornado is a type of violent windstorm.