Tornadoes

Placing a marble in a tornado in a bottle will just act as another object caught in the vortex created inside the bottle. It will spin around with the other air and debris, but won't have any significant impact on the overall behavior of the tornado.

Yes, using a different type of liquid can affect the time it takes for a tornado to form in a bottle. Thicker liquids such as honey or syrup may take longer to form a tornado compared to lighter liquids like water or oil. The viscosity and density of the liquid will impact the speed and stability of the tornado formation.

The temperature during a tornado can vary, but it is typically around the same as the surrounding air temperature. Tornadoes can occur in a wide range of temperatures, as they are caused by specific atmospheric conditions rather than just temperature alone.

A tornado is just one kind of vortex. Vorticies (vortexes) can come in a variety of shapes and sizes and can form in just about any liquid or gas that isn't too viscous.

Tornadoes are vorticies of air that range in size from a few yards to about 2.5 miles in diameter and a few thousand feet to a few miles in height. They produce violent winds capable of causing damage. Some tornadoes have smaller vorticies circling within them. Tornadoes are driven by complicated interactions of air currents within a thunderstorm.

Other vorticies form in a variety of mediums, though on earth the most common are in air and water. They range from tiny eddies a fraction of an inch in size to weather systems and ocean currents thousands of miles across. No other type of vortex on earth can match the intensity of the most violent tornadoes, though the storms on other planets (which are usually enormous vorticies) can.

Tornadoes travel due to the movement of air masses in the atmosphere. They are typically carried by strong thunderstorm updrafts and can be influenced by various factors such as wind patterns, topography, and weather systems.

Yes. The systems that produce tornadoes produce low pressure. Most tornadoes form from the mesocyclone of a supercell, which produces a note worth pressure drop. However, when the bottom portion of a mesocyclone becomes more focused to form a tornado the pressure drop is comparable to that of a hurricane if not greater.

How tornadoes stop is not fully understood, though it has more do do with the mechanics of the storm that produces the tornado rather than what surface with form on. The best explanation so far is that cold air from the rainy portion of either the tornado's parent storm or a nearby storm undercuts the updraft that sustains the tornado. This chokes of the supply of warm air that feeds the storm tot he point that it can no longer support a tornado.

Yes a tornado can pick up round objects at least as long as they are not too heavy. Objects made of more fragile materials may also have their surfaces broken by debris, making them less round.

An average tornado is probably a high-end EF0 to a low-end EF1, which would put winds in the range of 80 to 90 mph. However, the more destructive tornadoes which typically make it into the news are usually rated EF3 or higher, with winds over 135 mph.

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Doppler radar tracks the movement of the storm and can determine how fast it's going and, to a very limited degree, how fast its winds are. However, in nearly all cases the wind speeds reported in a tornado are estimated based on the severity of the damage that has been done.

It would be sheer coincidence if they did. A tornado is primarily a land storm. There can be a tornado over the surface of water (called a waterspout), but either way, tornadoes have nothing to do with tsunamis, which are caused by undersea quake movements.

A dust devil is a small, rotating column of air that typically forms in clear, dry conditions. They are typically much weaker than tornadoes and tend to make a whooshing or roaring sound rather than the distinct "freight train" noise associated with tornadoes.

The weakest category of tornado is EF0 on the enhanced Fujita scale.

The weakest of the two actual varieties of tornado are type 2 tornadoes, those that don't form in supercells (landspouts and most waterspouts). These rarelly exceed Ef0 intensity.

The general damage indicator for an F4 tornado is well built houses completely leveled and left as piles of rubble.

In the U.S. this has been replace by the EF4 category, which is on a somewhat less arbitrary scale. While the overall damage is essentially the same, more factors are taken into account such as quality of construction. On the new Enhanced Fujita scale an EF4 rating is given to a tornado with estimated peak winds in the range of 166 to 200 mph.

The wind speed of the tornado that hit Oklahoma in 1999 was estimated to be around 300 mph, making it one of the strongest tornadoes recorded in history. This tornado, known as the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado, caused widespread destruction and resulted in numerous fatalities.

Presumably you mean to ask how long a tornado lasts. The average duration for a tornado is about 10 minutes. However, tornadoes can last anywhere from just a few seconds to over an hour. The longest lived one on record lasted 3 hours and 29 minutes.

There is no way of knowing for certain as the means of measuring tornado wind speeds had not been invented yet in 1971. Based on damage the tornado was rated F5, which would put estimated winds in the range of 261-318 mph.

No one is credited with the discovery of weather. Weather has been present longer than man has walked the earth. Christopher Columbus recorded the details of what is possibly the first account of a hurricane back in 1495, and Ben Franklin discovered some ways to predict the weather.

A tornado is primarily composed of rotating air that forms a violently swirling column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. This rotating air can reach extremely high wind speeds and is capable of causing significant damage.

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Yes, an EF3 tornado can potentially cause significant damage to a brick house, including structural damage such as roof removal and exterior wall collapse. The severity of the damage would depend on various factors such as construction quality and tornado intensity.

If you mean the one from April 27, 2011, the wind speed for that tornado was estimated at 205 mph (330 km/h), qualifying it as an EF5. Some have suggested, however, that the severe ground scouring caused by this tornado indicates winds far higher than 205 mph.

First it is nearly impossible to determine exactly where a tornado will hit or how strong it will be in a given location. Also, direct measurement of tornado winds is rare, so it is not known exactly how fast the winds in a tornado are, especially at and near ground level, most often it it estimated from damage.

There are many wind speeds since there are different measures of tornadoes. It is measured by the Fujita Pearson Tornado Scale. If you want the wind speed for all of them . .. :

F0 - 40 - 72 miles per hour

F1- 73 -112 miles per hour

F2- 113- 137 miles per hour

F3- 138 - 205 miles per hour

F4- 207 - 260 miles per hour

F5- 261 - 318 miles per hour

Since then these winds speeds, which are really damage based estimates, were found to be in accurate and were adjusted on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

EF0: 65-85 mph

EF1: 86-110 mph

EF2: 111-135 mph

EF3: 136-165 mph

EF4: 166-200 mph

EF5: over 200 mph.