Tornadoes

The strongest tornadoes are reported in the Midwestern United States, in the area known as Tornado Alley.

No, Georgia is hundreds of miles east of Tornado alley. However Geogia still has its fair share of tornadoes.

There were numerous tornadoes in Oklahoma in 2013. However, the most significant tornado was the EF5 that hit Moore on May 20. A low pressure system was slowly making its way eastward across the Great Plains. The system led to the convergence of a warm, moist air mass from the Gulf of Mexico, a cooler air mass from Canada, and a dry air mass from the Rockies. This caused powerful thunderstorms to form over the plains. Strong wind shear set these storms rotating, turning them into supercells. One of these supercells was especially powerful, and spawned the violent tornado that hit Moore.

There are several conditions that set up in the spring months that are conducive to tornadoes. First of all, in the spring, the lower atmosphere warms faster than the upper atmosphere. This leads to instability, setting up the potential for strong thunderstorms. Second, large scale storm systems and their associated fronts create clashing air masses of different temperatures and humidities. This is what typically triggers the thunderstorms. Third, upper level winds are still strong at this point (they are strongest in winter and weakest in summer). This means that there is often strong wind shear. This is what gives thunderstorms the rotation they need to produce tornadoes.

They are also called fire whirls. This is the term preferred by scientists as they technically are not tornadoes.

The least Tornado prone state is Alaska, which has only had 4 recorded tornadoes since official records began In 1950.

The Moore, Oklahoma tornado of May 20, 2013 killed 24 people. A tornado in Shawnee, Oklahoma the day before killed 2 people.

You can't. Tornadoes descend from thunderstorms, and so cannot be seen from above. You can, however, see the thunderstorms in a satellite image. See the link below for a satellite time lapse of storms tha produce tornadoes.

No, tornadoes have been reported on every continent of the world except Antarctica. But the central U.S. has more tornadoes than any other country. See the link below for further information.

EF stands for the Enhanced Fujita scale. it is a scale derived from the Fujita or F scale put into use in the United States in 2007. It rates tornadoes into six categories based on the severity of the damage they inflict. The weakest tornadoes are rated EF0 while the strongest are rated EF5.

In long term forecast, the potential for tornadoes across a region, but not individual tornadoes, is forecast using weather models. Given data based on temperature, pressure, humidity, and wind speed and direction at different locations and altitudes, supercomputers forecast the behavior of weather systems, including those that might produce tornadoes. However, forecast models cannot predict where individual tornadoes will strike. Doppler radar can detect rotation within a thunderstorm, and thus tell if a storm is likely to produce a tornado in the near or currently producing one, with an average lead time of 14 minutes.

No community gets hit with tornadoes every year. Evansville has been hit by a total of 5 tornadoes since official record keeping began in 1950. This works out to an approximate average of 1 tornado every 12 years.

Most tornadoes are capable of at least breaking tree limbs and downing a few trees. Significant tornadoes uproot and snap large number of trees, in some instances carving large swaths of deforestation. In rare, extremely violent tornadoes the topsoil may be scoured away.

There is no such thing as "a meteorology". Meterology is the scientific study of weather. A tornado is a weather event.

Yes. There are a few ways this can form. Large, intense tornadoes sometimws spawn weaker satellite tornadoes that orbit the main tornado. A supercell, the kind of thunderstorm most likely to produce a tornado, will sometimes produce several tornadoes in succession in what is called a tornado family. In some cases a new member of a tornado family may touch down before the previous one has dissipated. Landspouts are weak tornadoes that form without the larger rotation of a mesocyclone. Sometimes a storm can produce more than one at a time. In one case six landspouts were on the ground near Lazbuddie, Texas at the same time.

Another phenomenon worth noting is something called a multiple vortex or tornado. A multiple vortex tornado contains smaller, short-lived vortices within the main circulation of the tornado itself. Tornadoes have been documented to have anywhere from one to six of these smaller vortices at a time. Under the right conditions these vortices can be visible as multiple funnels, but are usually hidden within the main funnel. Many of the most destructive tornadoes have multiple vortices. Even if multiple visible funnels, it is still considered one tornado.

Yes. This is when the atmosphere is usually the most unstable.

Moreso the central plains. While the Deep South is a major region for tornadoes, it is the Great Plains that have earned the name "Tornado Alley".

The earliest surviving record of a tornado was near Kilbeggan, Ireland in 1054. However, it is likely that other tornadoes were witnessed, but not noted in any records that are still around today.

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The Tri-State tornado dissipated about 10 miles northeast of Princeton, Indiana.

The typical aanswer to that is indeed continental polar and maritime tropical, but it is not necessarily the case. A continental tropical air mass may take the place of the continental polar air mass. In some cases, no collision of air masses is needed.

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The cost of damage from the Joplin tornado amounted to $2.8 billion.