Tornado damage may leave people without a home to stay in, at least temporarily. The damage is also costly and can greatly set people back financially if it is not fully covered by insurance. There is also the cost of lost productivity as businesses are forced to close to rebuild or repair, if they can reopen at all. People may suffer depression and other psychological effects at the loss of what they earned or created.
Generally the stronger the tornado, the more severe the damage it causes. A large tornado can affect a larger area than a small tornado and therefore cause a greater quantity of damage, though it is not necessarily more severe.
While it would be possible for a tornado to cause major damage to a significant portion of Washington D.C. (in 2002 a large F4 tornado came within 30 miles), no tornado would be large enough to affect the entire city.
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.
A tornado can cause damage that you do not want to see. It can destroy animals' habitats and kill plants by uprooting trees and destroying flowers. A tornado could break your home or vehicle! A tornado damages everything in its path.
Unfortunately there is no way to prevent tornado damage, but it can be reduced with improved building standards.
Tornadoes affect North Carolina in much the same way the affect other states. They cause damage, destruction, and power outages on a localized scale. Because it is not as tornado-prone as other States, North Carolina does not allocate as many resources to tornado preparation.
The greatest amount of damage in a tornado is caused by extremely strong winds. Additional damage is from flying debris.
There was significant tornado damage in and around Logansport IN in 1965. The 2011 tornado there resulted in no deaths or injuries. See link below.
There are a lot of things that affect human lives when a tornado hits. For one thing it can kill people. If a meteorologist doesn't catch the warnings in time to give out a tornado warning then things can end very badly, but they usually do. A tornado can also destroy homes, barns, plant life, crops, telephone poles, and pretty much anything that gets in its way. For example if a home gets struck by a tornado and they have a storm shelter and go underground then the family is safe. Except when the storm is over almost everything they own can be distroyed. Depends on how bad the tornado is.
The cost of damage from the Manchester, South Dakota tornado of 2003 was $3 million.