Tornadoes

It varies. Since official records began in 1950, tornadoes in Nebraska have killed a total of 54 people. Among these, individual tornadoes have had death tolls ranging from 1 to 11. The last killer tornado hit Nebraska was on May 22, 2004.

Missouri does not get hurricanes as it is too far inland, though the remnants of hurricanes can still bring rain and thunderstorms.

Tornadoes, on the other hand, are fairly common in Missouri.

Missouri can also get large hail, damaging straight-line winds, and heavy flooding, which can all be produced by the same storms that spawn tornadoes.

Most tornadoes don't even destroy homes, typically causing minor to moderate damage. Some tornadoes never even hit homes, striking only trees or open fields. At the other end of the spectrum, very strong tornadoes can destroy dozens or hundreds of homes with some of the worst destroying thousands.

Tornado alley is not an event, it is an area of the central plains of the United States.

It is always there and will almost certainly be there as long as the continents have their current forms.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot isn't really a tornado, and actually has more in common with a hurricane. But, to answer the question, it is over 300 years old, possibly much older. It has been raging since at least the first time Jupiter was observed through a telescope. It is not known how long it was going on before that.

There were no recorded tornadoes in Jesup, Georgia in 2008.

Wind speeds in an EF5 tornado are estimated to be in excess of 200 mph. They can reach much higher, potentially exceeding 300 mph.

A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. Tornadoes can cause extensive damage and can take you to a safer location if proper shelter is sought during a tornado warning. It is important to take tornado warnings seriously and seek shelter in a designated safe place.

The highest fatalities occurred in the Daulatpur-Salturia, Bangladesh tornado of April 26, 1989. The exact death toll is unknown, but it is estimated at about 1300.

The most deadly in the US was the Tri-state Tornado of March 18, 1925. It destroyed property on a 220-mile path from Missouri to Indiana over a period of 3.5 hours. It killed 695 people and was part of an outbreak of at least 9 tornadoes across the central US.

The most commonly used ranking system for a tornado is the Enhanced Fujita Scale which ranks F0 to F5 based on the strength and intensity of the winds exhibited. The United States receives as many as 1,200 tornadoes each year with most ranked as F3 or weaker, and most are located in the rural areas where structural damage is nominal. An F5 can produce wind speeds as high as 300 miles per hour.

Extreme weathers could happen due to warming of earth s surface. This may be due to position of the earth in its orbit.when its near to sun s orbit,it receives much greater radiation and hence due to the absorption of large amounts of heat,surface gets heated up and temperature rises.

Apart from this, weather conditions get changed due global warming also. due to which,there will be at least 2 degrees rise in temperature.

The central region known as Tornado Alley experiences the most tornadoes in the United States. Tornado Alley includes parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and South Dakota, and it is characterized by frequent tornado activity due to the clash of warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico with cool, dry air from the Rocky Mountains.

The Andover tornado in 1991 on April 26 resulted in one death and 40 injuries.

The answer could be many different ways. If you mean the inside, few survive to talk about it if they do end up flying through the air in a vortex. The few that do seldom remember the experience. Now if you're talking about the outside in the same neighborhood, it's pretty scary. In May 2003, Moore, Oklahoma I experienced a tornado. I heard loud noises and I was pretty scared. The wind ripped my room off, and I was really scared. Great force came down on me, and I thought I was going to die. The pressure inside my ears was unthinkable. I thought I was deaf. It was like one of those crazy moments when it's all loud, and all of a sudden it just went silent. So to sum it all up, a tornado feels scary, and it has great wind pressure. See the link below for audio that gives an idea of what such an experience is like.

If caught without shelter in an intense tornado, one would feel the terrific force of the winds and be unable to stand or even hold onto anything. Injuries or death would be caused by falling or being crushed against objects, or by impacts from other objects being hurled at great speeds. Tornado-force winds can drive blades of straw into telephone poles and wooden boards into concrete walls, so the human body would have little chance of survival.

A tornado is not a solid thing that you can touch, it is a vortex of very fast wind.

Here are the ratings on the Enhanced Fujita scale with estimated wind speeds and typical damage.

EF0: 65-85 mph. Shingles peeled from roofs. Damage to siding, gutters, and sign boards. Tree limbs broken. Some trees snapped or uprooted. Fences knocked down. Weak sheds and similar structures may be destroyed.

EF1: 86- 110 mph. Roofs of houses badly damage. Poorly secured roofs may be removed. Trailer homes overturned or badly damaged. Some barns and garages may collapse.

EF2: 111-135 mph. Roofs torn from well-built houses but most walls remain standing. Trailer homes and most barns completely destroyed. Large trees snapped. Cars tossed short distances.

EF3: 136-165 mph. Roofs and walls torn from well-built houses. Sometimes only a few interior walls are left. Weaker structures completely destroyed. Train cars lifted. Transmission towers crumpled.

EF4: 166-200 mph. Well-built houses completely leveled. Weaker houses blown away. Trees debarked. Asphalt may be peeled from roads.

EF5: Over 200 mph. Well-built houses completely blow away, leaving empty foundations. Reinforced concrete structures destroyed. Large objects tossed great distances. Severe ground scouring may occur.

They are very well practiced in how to stay safe in a tornado and known where to go when a tornado threatens.

Schools in such areas hold regular tornado drills, just like other schools hold fire drills.

The trade winds are the pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics near the equator. The trade winds blow predominantly from the northeast and from the southeast. The trade winds act as the steering flow for tropical storms that form over the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans that make landfall in North America, Southeast Asia, and India.

An EF-3 tornado can cause significant damage to a house, including tearing off roof materials and exterior walls. However, the complete destruction of a house would typically require a higher intensity tornado, such as an EF-4 or EF-5.

The strong winds in a tornado are causes by the steep pressure gradient surrounding it, with intense low pressure at the tornado's center. Strong winds in thunderstorms are usually caused by rain cooled air falling rapidly to ground level in an even called a downburst.

Yes. Several tornadoes have hit Detroit, Michigan. The strongest was an F3 on November 20, 1957.

There is not given size or path length of an F5.

Some are only a few hundred yards wide, others are over a mile. Some travel just a few miles, others have traveled over a hundred.

What defines an F5 tornado is how severe the damage is. If well built, strongly anchored houses are torn clean off their foundations the tornado is rated F5.

Yes, tornadoes can occur in North Carolina. The state is part of the region known as "Tornado Alley East," where there is a higher frequency of tornadoes compared to other parts of the U.S. Tornadoes in North Carolina are most common in the spring and early summer months.

Pennsylvania typically experiences an average of around 16 tornadoes per year. However, the number can vary significantly from year to year.

No, people cannot prevent tornadoes. Tornadoes are natural weather phenomena that form under specific atmospheric conditions and are beyond human control. However, people can take precautions to stay safe during tornadoes by having a plan in place and seeking shelter in designated areas.