Tornadoes

As of the morning of April 9, 2012 the last confirmed tornado was an EF0 near Naples, Florida on April 6. However, several tornadoes were reported in central Texas on April 7 but have yet to be surveyed and confirmed.

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Every state gets tornadoes. Pennsylvania and Ohio have even had F4 and F5 tornadoes. The inland states do not get hurricanes.

The Dakotas, Florida, and Michigan have only have a few small earthquakes.

Pennsylvania has had a few earthquakes, but none have been very damaging.

Not all mesocyclones produce tornadoes; however, they are often associated with tornado formation. The presence of a mesocyclone is a key indicator for meteorologists to monitor for tornado development.

The last time Denver had a tornado was in 2007. There could have been some early this year but most likely in 2007.

You can not stop the tornado, however you should take cover in a basement. If you live in a town with a high water table then you don't have basements and you should take cover in a closet or in a room with no windows.

Tropical storms are larger in size than tornadoes but smaller than hurricanes. Tropical storms can span hundreds of miles in diameter, while tornadoes are typically less than a mile wide. Hurricanes are much larger than both tropical storms and tornadoes, with wind speeds exceeding those of a tropical storm and the potential to cause widespread damage over a broader area.

Thunderstorms are the most common type of storm, occurring frequently around the world. They are characterized by thunder, lightning, strong winds, and sometimes heavy rain or hail. Tornadoes and hurricanes are less common but can be more destructive when they occur.

A tornado can cause destruction by uprooting trees, damaging buildings, and throwing debris at high speeds. It can also result in injuries and fatalities due to its strong winds and flying objects.

No the fastest a tornado is known to have traveled is 73 mph.

The fastest winds ever recorded in a tornado were just over 300mph, which is about as strong as they get.

Before a tornado the clouds will often be an unusually greenish/grey and dark color and after hail or heavy rain it might be really calm outside no birds, no wind, no thunder. At night blue or white power flashes which means power lines are being snapped by winds if you got an emergancy weather radio in your basement or cellar than you can always plug that in and listen to the reports. Also the temperature might change to cold or warm sometimes. Their may also be rotating clouds or a wall cloud which means the storm may be strong enough to preduce a tornado and also low rumbling noises that doesn't fade in a few seconds kind of like thunder.

A tornado outbreak is a series of multiple tornadoes (usually at least six) produced by the same storm system (i.e. a system of multiple storms) in a geographic area in a relatively short period of time (usually 48 hours or less).

A tornado family is a series of tornadoes produced in succession by a single storm as it goes through cycles.

In a tornado outbreak the tornado tracks are scattered across a given area such as a state or several states.

In a tornado family several tornado tracks occur along the same approximate line.

Sometimes there are several tornado families within an outbreak.

Very large tornadoes can be well over a mile wide. The largest tornado on record, occurring near El Reno, Oklahoma in 2013, was 2.6 miles wide.

A typical tornado, however, is only 50 to 100 yards wide.

It can range from stationary to over 70 mph. The average is about 30 mph.
The fastest moving tornado ever recorded traveled at 73 mph. Most tornadoes travel at 30-40 mph. Some are nearly stationary.

Wind speeds in a tornado can range from 65 mph to over 300 mph (105 km/h to 480 km/h), with some of the most intense tornadoes exhibiting wind speeds over 200 mph (320 km/h). The speed of wind in a tornado can vary depending on the strength and size of the tornado.

That would most likely be a tornado, but winds usually aren't so fast.

I'm not exactly too sure what they would say but if you turned on your TV at the time I'm sure they would say something like this: "A tornado has been spotted in Oklahoma. Take shelter immediately." They would definitely warn of the on-coming storm.

Even the NWS doesn't know there IS going to be a tornado until it has formed. Whenever weather conditions that may produce tornadoes exist, they issue a "Tornado Watch" for the area. They monitor their equipment (especially the dopler radar) to determine where one MAY be forming and which direction it will travel if it forms. Once a funnel cloud has formed, they issue a "Tornado Warning" and predict it's path.

People have adapted to dealing with tornadoes by building shelters, or finding a safe place within their homes. They have learned to understand the type of weather that is likely to result in tornadoes. They have become accustomed to listening to warnings, and taking them seriously.

Yes, although (according to the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology) most violent tornadoes are in the US , east of the Rockies. Here's a little information from the Australian Government site: http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/nsw/sevwx/warning_service.shtml and some general tornado information from answers.com - http://www.answers.com/topic/tornado. If you want some pictures of NSW tornadoes - http://australiasevereweather.com/tornadoes_australia.htm

The area with the highest tornado frequency in the U.S. is Tornado Alley. A region stretching across the Great Plains from Texas to South Dakota and Iowa. Another tornado hot spot is in Florida.

This depends on whether you are in the northern or southern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere has its summer solstice (the longest day of the year) in December: after that, the southern hemisphere gradually begins to tilt away from the sun, while the northern hemisphere begins to tilt more towards the sun as it moves beyond winter.

Tornadoes spin due to a combination of strong updrafts and wind shear. The updrafts lift warm, moist air, while wind shear causes the air to rotate and tilt. This creates a spinning motion that can evolve into a tornado under the right atmospheric conditions.

Tornadoes normally rotate cyclonically in direction:

- counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere

- clockwise in the southern hemisphere

But while large-scale storms always rotate cyclonically due to the Coriolis effect, thunderstorms and tornadoes are so small that the direct influence of the Coriolis effect is inconsequential. Supercells and tornadoes rotate cyclonically in numerical simulations even when the Coriolis effect is neglected. Low-level mesocyclones and tornadoes owe their rotation to complex processes within the supercell and ambient environment.

Approximately 1% of tornadoes rotate in an anticyclonic direction. Typically, only landspouts and gustnadoes rotate anticyclonically, and usually only those which form on the anticyclonic shear side of the descending rear flank downdraft in a cyclonic supercell. However, on rare occasions, anticyclonic tornadoes form in association with the mesoanticyclone of an anticyclonic supercell, in the same manner as the typical cyclonic tornado, or as a "companion tornado," either as a satellite tornado or associated with anticyclonic eddies within a supercell.