Tornadoes

There is no real evidence that they can. The most violent tornadoes have been known to have been turn from their foundations, but foundations have noot been blown away. Some foundations have been damaged, however. In a few cases concrete slabs have been shattered, but this was likely due to impacts from large objects rather than the tornado's winds.

If you actually get hit, you have a fair chance of dying, especially n anything more than an EF3. You are safer in a well-built house. However, in terms of the overall number of deaths your chances of dyring in this situation are quite small. According to Storm Prediction Center data, the average number of tornadic deaths in vehicles in the U.S. is between 6 and 7 per year. This puts your chances of dying in a vehicle from a tornado at less than 1 in 400,000. This includes deaths in all vehicles and not just cars.

Tornadoes can occur in most areas, but they occur more frequently in some places thanin others. Tornadoes form best under a given set of circumstances when a mass of cool and/or dry air pushes into a warm, moist unstable air mass with the right setup of wind shear, or a difference in wind speed and dirction with height. This leads to the formation of rotating thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes. This setup occurs more frequently in some areas than in others.

It depends on the intensity of tornado. The very strong will completely destroy almost all buildings. Those that remain intact will be badly damaged. The most violent tornadoes can also scour away topsoil and peel asphalt from roads.

As of mid December 2013 there have been 12,800 officially documented tornadoes in the United States in the past 10 years. Note that figures for several months in 2013 are still preliminary.

There have been about 100 confirmed tornadoes in Oregon since 1950 Most of them weak..

Before that records are few and far between

All of these are stypes of storm that can be dangerous. All of them get their energy from some sort of unstable setup in the atmosphere. Except for some thunderstorms, they are associated with low barometric pressure and bring strong winds.

There is no shortage of examples of tornadoes in Florida. Literally thousands have hit the state since record keeping began in 1950. To give an example, we shall turn to one of the worst tornadoes to hit Florida. This F3 tornado struck Kissimmee, near Orlando, on February 23, 1998. It tore through a mobile home park and and RV park in the town, killing 25 people and injuring nearly 150. In total, 1,000 structures were damaged or destroyed by this tornado and damage totalled $50 million.

The Waco, Texas tornado of May 11, 1953 killed 114 people, tying it with the 1902 Goliad tornado as the deadliest tornado in texas history.

The Murfreesboro, Tennessee tornado touched down 15 miles southwest of Murfreesboro on April 10, 2009 and moved northeast farily quickly. It struck Murfreesboro, destroying numerous homes and heavily damaging many others. Several homes were removed from their foundations and trees in at least one area were debarked, which was the basis for the tornado's EF4 rating. A two-story office building had the upper floor completely removed. A woman and her infant daughter were killed in the destruction of their home. More than 50 other people were injured.

Hurricanes form over warm ocean water. Tornadoes can form just about anywhere.

In 1975 there were confirmed tornadoes in 43 states. If you are referring to an outbreak that produced 75 tornadoes, you will need to specify the date.

No. Even in a very large tornado it would likely be only a few hundred yards wide.

Yes. Florida is about tied with Oklahoma for third place in highest annual number of tornadoes, behind Texas and Kansas. However, the tornadoes in Florida are generally much weaker than those on the Greak Plains, with very few rating higher than EF2.

Unfornuntately, is is impossible to predict when then next tornado will hit anywhere.

Yes. A tornado can be though of as part of a larger parent thunderstorm, though most thunderstorms do not produce tornadoes.

May is the most dangerous month for tornadoes in Oklahoma.

Cities that are inland are safe from hurricanes, but just about no place habitable to humans is immune to tornadoes. However in the U.S. west of the Rockies strong tornadoes are rare. Cities such as Phoenix and Los Angeles have seen tornadoes in the general vicinity, but they are almost invariably weak.

The last tornado to hit southeastern Michigan was an F0 that occured in the Muskegon area on November 10, 1998.

It varies. The tornado can vary in vertical extend from as little as 10,000 feet to as much as 60,000 feet. More violent tornadoes tend to be taller.

No. Some tornadoes touch down in open fields and cause no damage or injuries. However, all tornadoes have the potential to cause harm, even EF0 tornadoes. There are some whrilwinds that are harmless, such as most dust devils. These are not tornadoes, though they sometimes look like them.

Floods are essential in some areas in delivering fertaile soil. Tornadoes have no real benefit.

The definition of a tornado is based more on the behavior of the wind than on its wind speed. A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column of air that connects to the ground and the cloud base. If a wind event does not meet these criteria, then it is not a tornado, regardless of the wind speed. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, tornadic winds are generally considered to start at 65 mph, but tornadoes have been rated with estimated winds as low as 55 mph. It is rare to obtain actual wind speed measurements from inside a tornado, so most of the time winds are estimated based on the damage caused.

The first known use of the word "tornado" was in 1556.