Tornadoes

The last tornado recorded to have hit Alaska was an F0 on Popof Island on June 25, 2005.

Most injuries are the result of flying or falling debris. Minor injuries may include cuts, scrapes, and bruises. More serious cases may involve severe cuts, piecing injuries, broken bones, concussions, and crushing injuries.

The area gets 700-800 tornadoes each year, which averages to about 2 tornadoes each day. However, tornadoes do not hit Tornado Alley daily, but often occur in outbreaks. Also, tornado activity is much higher in spring and early summer than other times of year.

It's hard to say. The U.S. has the most tornadoes on average, but India also has its fair share. The only problem is that media doesn't cover India as much as they do in other nations. Thus, many tornadoes are unrecorded. And if it might help you at all, the U.S. has four times the number of tornadoes than all of Europe, excluding waterspouts.

Of the 34 people killed in the Xenia tornado of 1974 nine to eleven were children depending on what age you consider childhood to end. The two oldest victims of these eleven were 14 and 16 years old.

Because of the lack of heavy debris, tornadoes at sea are not generally dangerous unless they persist as they come ashore. The most common result is a waterspout, which has wind speeds somewhat lower than land tornadoes.

I'm not sure if tornadoes can do good at any point. Tornadoes are violent but small storms that start over land. In a tornado, winds begin to move in a circle. They may go as fast as 300 miles an hour. The winds make a tall, dark cloud in the shape of a funnel. The bottom of the funnel may touch the ground. If it does, a great deal of damage can occur. Buildings are destroyed. Cars and other objects can be lifted and thrown many yards away.

Waterspouts usually do not have any significant effect on humans. In many cases the sighting of waterspouts may prompt advisories, frecommending caution to boaters. Waterspouts are generally not as strong as ordinary tornadoes and usually do not approach land. Therefore the primary threat is the potential to capsize small boats. In some cases waterspouts may come ashore and cause damage, but deaths and injuries are rare.

Tornadic waterspouts, oridnary tornadoes that just happen to be on water, are a relatively rare occurence. These waterspouts can be very dangerous, especially if they approach land. One of the worst cases of this was with Sandusyky/Lorain tornado of 1924. This F4 tornado first formed as a waterspout on Sandusky Bay before devastating the city of Sandusky, Ohio. It became a waterspout again on Lake Erie before devstating the city of Lorain. In all, 85 people were killed.

Most tornadoes contain moisture and are in fact made visible at least in part, by condensation. These are simply typical tornadoes.

Some tornadoes are surrounded by heavy rain that falls even right where the tornado is. This is often called a rain wrapped tornado.

A tornado that occurs on a body of water such as a lake or the ocean is called a waterspout.

A tornado that spins in the opposite direction from normal (e.g. clockwise in the northern hemisphere) it is called an anticyclonic tornado.

Tornado Alley did not "hit" South Dakota because it is not an event. It is a place that some include South Dakota as a part of.

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Tornadic and fair weather waterspouts.

Tornadic waterspouts are ordinary tornadoes that form from the mesocyclone of a supercell and just happen to be on water.

Fair weather waterspouts are generally weaker than tornadic waterspouts. They form from developing storms that occur over water that is warmer than the air above. They form in a manner more like that of dust devils than ordinary tornadoes.

Most waterspouts are of the fair weather variety.

Waterspouts most often occur when a relatively cool air mass moves over a warm body of water, resulting in instability. A bit of turbulence near the surface can then give the spin necessary to get waterspouts started.

It depends on the basement and often the corner is not even the best place. If you have a centrally located room in your basement that is likely your best bet. You should look for a place away from any windows and free from heavy objects that may fall on you.

Very few places. The only areas where tornadoes do not occur are in polar climates and perhaps in some areas of extreme desert, such as parts of the Atacama.

Tornado activity in the U.S. generally peaks in April, May, and June.

Yes. It is not uncommon for the South to see at least a few tornadoes during the month of December. The size and intensity of the tornado outbreak of December 23, 2015 was unusual for this time of year, but not unheard of.

There might be a tornado. Natural disasters happen everywhere.

The wind speed in a tornado may reach speeds well over 200 mph, though few tornadoes are that intense. Winds over 300 mph may occur in rare instances. A 200 mph wind speed marks the upper limit of wind estimates for an EF4 tornado. A tornado with estimated winds higher than that would be rated EF5.

It is hard to say which one was the "worst" as that is somewhat subjective.

The deadliest tornado season on record was that of 1925. On March 18 of that year the Tri-State tornado, the deadliest single tornado in U.S. history, killed 695 people. This death toll alone is greater than that of any other tornado season in the U.S. In all the 1925 tornado season killed 794 people.

The deadliest tornado season that does not owe its severity to a single tornado was the 2011 tornado season, which left 553 dead, with most deaths resulting from the Super Outbreak and the Joplin tornado. April 2011 had, by far, the highest number of tornadoes on record at 758. The month also produced the 2011 Super Outbreak of April 25-28. It was the largest tornado outbreak on record, spawning more than 350 tornadoes in just over 3 days including a 24-hour record of 207 tornadoes on April 27. Four of those tornadoes were rated EF5, marking only the second time that more than two F5 or EF5 tornadoes occurred in a single day. May 22 produced the Joplin, Missouri tornado, which killed 158 people and cost $2.8 billion in damage, the costliest single tornado in U.S. history and by far the deadliest in the era of modern forecasting.

The most severe tornado season on record was in 1974. That year produced a record 29 tornadoes rated F4 and 7 rated F5, most of them during the Super Outbreak of April 3-4, the most violent tornado outbreak on record. That outbreak produced 23 F4 tornadoes and 7 F5s in less than 24 hours. Despite the higher number of violent tornadoes, 1974 fell short of 2011 in deaths due to three extremely deadly tornadoes in 2011.

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We are not aware of any tornadoes occurring in the Arctic Circle. Tornadoes need moisture and warm air to form, which is unusual at that lattitude. Plus tornadoes or their evidence have to be observed by someone, and the Arctic Circle has few residents!