Tornadoes

There were 46 recorded tornadoes in Texas in 2014.

When: tornadoes are most common in spring and early summer in the late afternoon and early evening.

Where: Tornadoes are most common in the central and southeastern United States, Bangladesh, southern Canada, Australia, Argentina, and South Africa.

Tornadoes are most common in the late afternoon and early evening, when the atmosphere is most likely to become highly unstable.

The damage from a tornado is generally more severe than that of a tropical storm or hurricane, but is limited to a much smaller area. Hurricanes and tropical storms can cause damage over enormous areas, so the total amount of damage done is greater.

It is estimated that 319 people died during the Super Outbreak of 1974.

Records indicate that an F1 tornado hit in or near Freehold on August 10, 1952. Tornadoes can strike anywhere in New Jersey.

Kansas averages about 95 tornadoes per year.

1. With a death toll of 158 the Joplin tornado of May 22, 2011 was the seventh deadliest tornado in US history, the deadliest in the US since 1947, and the first single tornado to kill more than 100 people since 1953.
2. The damage cost of $2.8 billion marks it as the costliest tornado in U.S. history even with adjustment for inflation.
3. It was the fifth of six tornadoes in 2011 to be rated EF5, tying the annual record set back in 1974.
4. From its formation the Joplin tornado has multiple smaller vortices inside its funnel, which added to the destruction.
5. The tornado formed only a mile outside of Joplin and intensified very rapidly, leaving little time to alert people that a tornado had formed.
6. a number of odd phenomena were observed after the tornado, including a chair with its legs stuck in a wall, a hose stuck through a tree trunk, and a wooden been impaled through a concrete curb.

"Twister" is a slang term for tornado.

If a tornado threatens the area take cover in a basement or cellar. If you do not have one go to an interior room, hallway, or closet on the lowest floor of the building or house you are in. Cover yourself if possible. If you are in a mobile home, leave it for sturdier shelter.

During and before a tornado, government agencies responsible for weather alerts will warn people who may be in danger. After a tornado, emergency responders will help rescue people who are trapped or injured and will later provide food, shelter, and other necessities to those who need it.

This question most likely refers tot he tornado which struck Moore on May 20. Where possible roofs were patched and resurfaced and broken windows were replaced. Houses and buildings that were severely damage had to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch. Badly damage trees were cut down. New power lines were put up.

The F4 tornado that hit Hamden, Connecticut in 1989 struck on July 10.

There have been several tornadoes in Alaska, all of which have occurred in the southern part of the state. Tornadoes are a product of strong thunderstorms, which require an unstable atmosphere. Instability occurs with a warm, moist lower atmosphere. Because of the cold climate, tornadoes are exceedingly rare in Alaska. But, contrary to popular belief, Alaska is not always cold. Temperatures have occasionally risen has high as the 90s with warm air masses surging up from the south. Such conditions could support thunderstorms and tornadoes.

Sometimes yes, but often no. Tornadoes form during severe thunderstorm, extending from the ground up to cloud bases and a good deal above that. Even aside from the tornado, thunderstorms can contain dangerous winds, hail, and icing conditions that planes should avoid. While jet airliners can safely fly over some thunderstorms, the storms that spawn tornadoes are often very tall and their heights can exceed the flight ceilings of commercial aircraft.

Tornadoes can travel in any direction, but most of the ones that strike the United States and Canada, including Alberta, come out of the southwest.

The most recent tornado in Columbus, as of Jul7 27, 2015 was an EF0 on October 31, 2013.

Tornadoes can hit California at any time of year and any time of day but are most common in the winter and early spring in the late afternoon and early evening.

If you are looking for records of tornadoes that have happened, the Tornado History Project website has decent records of tornadoes in the United States, including maps, going back to 1950. You may use the dates in that database to search for articles and reports on individual tornadoes. If you are looking for tornadoes as they occur, the website of the National Weather Service gives information of all active weather alerts in the United States, including tornado warnings. The terrain, forested areas, and lack of strong, long-lived tornadoes makes California a bad place to try storm chasing.

The Great Plains see a high frequency of tornadoes because of their ideal climatic setup. In the spring storm systems cause warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico to collide with cool air from Canada and dry air from the Rockies, resulting in the formation of strong thunderstorms. About a mile off the ground a layer of stable air holds thunderstorm activity back, allowing instability to build underneath it. As a result when the storm break through the cap the instability will be enormous, leading to explosively powerful thunderstorms. At the same time wind speed and direction varies with altitude, which sets these storms rotating and also strengthens the updraft. This rotation combined with strong thunderstorm updrafts can then produce tornadoes.

All US states have had tornadoes. Antarctica gets snow and no tornadoes, but it is a continent, not a state.

This question could be interpreted two ways: "What does a tornado look like" and "how does a tornado form."

In the former case, a tornado often takes on a funnel or cone shape extending from the base of the clouds to the ground. This funnel may be narrow and bend somewhat, taking on an appearance similar to an elephant trunk or a rope. Other tornadoes may appear as vertical columns of massive swirling balls of dust. Depending on lighting conditions and the amount of dust being picked up, a tornado may appear while, gray, black, brown, or rusty red.

In terms of how tornadoes form, first you need strong thunderstorms and wind shear. Wind shear is a variation in the speed and direction of the wind with altitude. If the setup is right, it can set thunderstorm rotating, turning them into supercells. The rotating updraft in the storm is known as the mesocyclone. This mesocyclone can potentially tighten, intensify, and reach toward the ground to form a tornado.

Neurovascular damage refers to injury or disruption to the blood vessels and nerves in a specific area of the body, often resulting from conditions such as stroke, trauma, or chronic diseases like diabetes. This damage can impair blood flow, leading to ischemia (lack of oxygen) and affecting the function of the nervous system. Symptoms may include pain, numbness, weakness, or loss of function in the affected region. Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial to minimize long-term complications.

Generally you should shelter in place during a tornado as you are more likely to survive if caught in your house than if caught in a car. Evacuating from a tornado is not as simple as it sounds, as the paths of tornadoes can be unpredictable and it is possible to get stuck in traffic since peak tornado activity often coincides with the evening rush hour. That said, if you are in a mobile home when a tornado is coming you should leave it for sturdier shelter.

We cannot stop tornadoes from occurring or from striking communities. It may be possible to reduce the damage done, however, by building structures to standards that allow them to withstand powerful winds. Even then, few structures can survive the strongest tornadoes.