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The center of a tornado can cause a great deal of damage.
A tornado produces strong winds that spiral around a center of low pressure, causing immense damage by lifting and displacing debris in its path. It can also generate lightning and hail within the storm system.
I saw a Destructive force happen in Dallas.
The damage severity in a tornado is determined primarily by wind speed. For example, a tornado with peak winds of 100 mph, even if it is very large, is not going to obliterate well built houses, thought it will cause severe roof damage. By contrast, even a relatively small tornado with peak winds of 250 mph can completely destroy just about any structure.
The strength of a tornado is determined by the damage it does to man-made structures and vegetation. When a structure takes damage from a tornado, the degree of damage, the type of structure, and its quality of construction are used to estimate the strength of the winds that caused that damage. This is then used to sort the tornado into one of six intensity categories of the Enhanced Fujita Scale, ranging from EF0 at the weakest to EF5 at the strongest.
The damage is surveyed and where damage boundaries are is noted. This is the used to show how wide the tornado is. Note that the size is not a factor in how the tornado is rated but how intense the damage is.
The center of a tornado.
The center of a tornado
A tornado's center, or "eye," is actually found in hurricanes, not tornadoes. In a tornado, the most intense winds and destruction are located in the center of the funnel cloud. This is where the rotation is strongest and where the most damage is typically inflicted.
Once A tornado hits it doesn't have PERMANENT damage.
The tornado did extensive damage across our entire state.
The damage from the tornado was of biblical proportions.
It depends. A tornado can cause property damage in a matter of seconds, but in a large, slow moving tornado, structures can be exposed to damging winds for several minutes. A very violent tornado can completely obliterate a well built house in under 3 seconds.
depending on the severity of the tornado, the destruction could last from seconds to minutes. the larger the tornado, the more damage it will do. the closer to the center, the stronger the winds
No, this myth originated by people under the impression that allowing the pressure to equalize as a tornado passes would reduce the damage. In reality, the difference in pressure between the center of a tornado and elsewhere is not great enough to do much damage, and opening windows will allow the wind to come in and do much more damage than it would otherwise be able to.
it depends on the tornado damage
The longest tornado damage path on record is 219 miles.
Most damage in a tornado is caused by the extremely fast winds.