A tornado has low pressure at its center and a powerful updraft. As a result air rapidly rushes inward and upward, sometimes carrying things with it.
Tom and kelly
Dorothy and Toto
you practically don't go anywhere you just get blown away
Debris.
depends on the strength of it. if your sheltered, you should be fine. but if your outside during a tornado it's possible. **The odds are good if you are caught without cover underground in a F3 tornado. You do not actually get sucked up but blown away in the strong wind. Reports say that the actual danger does not come from being carried away by the winds but having being hit by large flying stuff picked up also.
your animals.
The tornado sucked the car right up into the air. The vortex below those rapids sucked my canoe right out from under me!
Tom and kelly
Dorothy and Toto
Dorothy and Toto
Air is continuously moving up in a tornado. This means that air surrounding the tornado must move in to replace the rising air.
you practically don't go anywhere you just get blown away
In addition to rotating quickly, the wind in a tornado moves upward rapidly as well. Sometimes fast enough to lift objects.
Air in and near a tornado spirals inward and upward very rapidly. The strong winds can pick up objects to carry with them.
Because - at the centre of a tornado (or hurricane) is an area of low pressure. Wind is 'sucked' into the centre in an attempt to equalise the pressure.
Debris.
depends on the strength of it. if your sheltered, you should be fine. but if your outside during a tornado it's possible. **The odds are good if you are caught without cover underground in a F3 tornado. You do not actually get sucked up but blown away in the strong wind. Reports say that the actual danger does not come from being carried away by the winds but having being hit by large flying stuff picked up also.