Tornadoes

at least 25,000 per year by tornadoes.

A cumulonimbus cloud.

Not necessarily. A collision of warm and cold air will often produce thunderstorms, but other conditions are needed for those storms to produce tornadoes. Additionally, tornadoes can form from thunderstorms produced by other circumstances.

Girard Ohio was hit by an F3 tornado on August 5, 1956. 2 others that occurred very near Girard were an F5 on May 31, 1985 and an F0 on July 22, 1990.

You contact your local National Weather Service offices. Visit the national weather service website and click on you location on the map of the U.S. This should lead you to your areas NWS office. From there there should be a place where you can submit storm reports.

Yes. Some tornadoes have a feature similar to the eye of a hurricane.

There are several factors. First, New York has a relatively cool climate and as a result the atmosphere tends to be more stable and less prone to the severe thunderstorms needed to produce tornadoes. In addition, the fronts that occur are often not strong enough to produce tornadic thunderstorms and more often produce squall lines, which often produce damaging winds but not tornadoes. Wind shear is also not as strong there and strong wind shear is needed for the right kind of thunderstorm called a supercell.

Yes. Have a plan of where to go in in the event of a tornado. The best place to go is a basement or cellar and to crouch in a corner facing a wall. If you don't have a basement or cellar then choose an interior room or hallway on the lower part of your house. If you live in a mobile home choose a nearby sturdy building that you can get to quickly.

Keep a battery powered weather radio available and have a supply of food and water that does not need to be cooked or refrigerated.

There was no tornado in Woodward, Oklahoma in 2011. If you mean the one in April of 2012, it was a strong tornado of EF3 intensity, meaning it had estimated peak winds of 136 to 165 mph. It killed 6 people and destroyed a number of homes. So overall it was worse than the typical tornado.

Tornadoes in the U.S. are rated on the Enhanced Fujita scale, which has six strength categories ranging from EF0 at the weakest to EF5 at the strongest. It was adapted from the similar Fujita scale, which is still used in a number of countries.

They listen for warnings. If one is issued they go to their basement, cellar, or some other room deemed safe from tornadoes, preferably one in the center part of the house. People who live in trailers leave for studier shelter. Some trailer parks have storm shelters.

You take cover as soon as it gets reported to you!

Tornado in the U.S. most frequently occur on the Great Plains.

Yes, tornadoes do touch the ground. If the don't they are not considered tornadoes. However, in order to qualify the visible funnel does not have to reach ground winds, just the vortex of wind.

Illinois averages about 55 tornadoes per year.

The last tornado to hit Seattle was in 1971.

No. The moon has no atmosphere, and thus it cannot have tornadoes or any sort of weather.

Yes.

May is the most likely.

75 percent of recorded tornadoes occur in the U.S. However, this is misleading as unlike the U.S. many countries do not keep records, resulting in tornado numbers outside the U.S. that are unrealistically low.

A lot of them happen this year people come on u don't know that.

Tornadoes happen mostly during the spring and early summer and during the later afternoon or early evening.

13 states fit this criterion based on tornado data averaged from the years 1991-2011. They are:

Kansas (95 tornadoes per year)

Florida (65)

Oklahoma (64)

Nebraska (57)

Illinois (55)

Iowa (51)

Colorado (51)

Alabama (48)

Missouri (46)

Mississippi (46)

Minnesota (45)

Arkansas (41)

Louisiana (38)

South Dakota (35)

Note that these are only based on averages. The number of tornadoes in a state varies significantly from year to year. For example Alabama saw a record high of 145 tornadoes in 2011, while in 2005 Oklahoma saw only 27 tornadoes.

Call for help periodically if you can. Under such circumstances there will be search and rescue teams.