No, Illinois is not the most eastern state in Tornado Alley. Tornado Alley typically includes states like Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, where tornado activity is most prevalent. Illinois is located on the eastern edge of Tornado Alley but is not considered one of the core states in the region.
The most powerful category of tornado is F5 on the Fujita scale or EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
The most destructive part of a tornado is typically the vortex, which is the rotating column of air that extends from the base of the tornado to the ground. The strongest winds and most intense damage occur within this rotating column.
The five stages a tornado goes through are: The dust whirl stage, when the circulation first touches the ground The organizing stage, in which the tornado grows and intensifies The mature stage. when the tornado is at its largest and typically strongest The shrinking stage in which the tornado begins to lose strength The rope out stage in which the vortex decays and finally dissipates, often twisting and bending as it does so. Of these stages the mature stage is usually the most destructive.
The most common rating for a tornado is EF0, accounting for almost 60% of tornadoes in the U.S. The higher the rating, the less often it occurs.
The tornado that cause the most damage on record touched down on May 22, 2011. It struck Joplin, Missouri causing $2.8 billion in damage.
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There has never been an F6 tornado. F0 is the most common type.
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mostly in America the tri state tornado but most part of the world it is the Daulatapur Salturia Bangladesh tornado
The most recent F5/EF5 tornado was the Moore, Oklahoma tornado of May 20, 2013.
Most injuries in a tornado are caused by flying debris.
Flying debris is the most dangerous part in a tornado.
The most famous tornado today is most likely the Oklahoma City tornado of May 3, 1999. That tornado caused approximately $1 billion in damage.
The place with the most tornado sirens would have to be tornado alley
Most damage in a tornado is caused by the extremely fast winds.
the most tragic tornado in edinburgh was in 1813 and it was in the neigborhood of inglewood.