The shortest tornado path on record was 7 feet long.
The longest tornado path ever recorded was 219 miles long.
The Joplin, Missouri tornado of 2011 had a damage path of 22 miles.
The largest tornado of 2008 in terms of path width, the standard measure of a tornado's size, occurred east of Pardeeville, Wisconsin on June 7. Despite only earning a rating of EF2, the multivortex tornado had a peak path width of 2 miles. The highest rated tornado, though not the largest, was the EF5 tornado that hit Parkersburg, Iowa and killed 9 people. It had a peak path width of 1.2 miles.
The path length of a tornado is usually measure in miles. The median path length for a tornado is about 1 mile or 1760 yards. Some path lengths exceed 100 miles. Path width, which is sometimes mistakenly called length is the actual size of the tornado. A typical tornado is 50 yards wide but sizes can range from as little as 1 yard (record smallest) to 4,440 yards or 2.5 miles (record largest). Relatively few tornadoes are over 400 yards wide.
tornado
Path lengths of tornadoes vary tremendously. A typical tornado path is a mile or two long. Most highly destructive tornadoes have paths more than 15 miles long. The shortest tornado path on record was 7 feet long while the longest was 219 miles.
Of these, tornadoes have the shortest duration.
difference between shortest path and alternate path
The average tornado damage path is 5 miles. But they can be much longer or shorter. The longest recorded damage path was 219 miles. The shortest was 7 feet.
No. A tornado's path is virtually unpredicatable.
Yes, a tornado can wreak everything in its path.
No, it is not.
for finding the shortest path
The longest tornado path ever recorded was 219 miles long.
The longest tornado damage path on record is 219 miles.
A tornado's path is narrow and usually relatively straight.
The average tornado has a path length of 2 to 3 miles.