Tornadoes

There were 123 tornadoes in Illinois in 2006.

Yes. On March 2, 2012 West Liberty, Kentucky was hit by an EF3 tornado that was part of a major outbreak. The tornado was a mile wide and traveled 95 miles, killing 11 people.

There were 75 tornadoes in Arkansas in 2011.

Tornadoes get their energy from the rotating updraft of their parent thunderstorm. If cold or dry air gets into the updraft it will weaken it (warm, moist air rises more easily), causing the tornado to dissipate.

Yes. Back building is merely a process in which a storm grows in size faster than it moves so that the back back edge actually expands backwards. This can happen if a very slow moving tornado starts to grow.

Tornadoes typically develop from a powerful type of thunderstorm called a supercell. In a major tornado outbreak multiple supercells develop, usually ahead of a front, and thus form a rough line or a broad cluster that sweeps across a large region. The storms themselves are large and, from a human perspective, far apart, so while many tornadoes may be on the ground, they will typically be a few tens of miles apart.

One thing to note is that the number of tornadoes listed for an outbreak probably did not occur all at the same time. In most cases those tornado occurred over the course of a day or even several days. Sometimes news media inflate numbers by stating the number of tornado reports, which will be higher than the number of tornadoes as some tornadoes, especially long lived ones, are reported more than once.

Barometric pressure goes down in a tornado.

Depending on the strength of the tornado most buildings will sustained some degree of damage. A very strong tornado will destroy most, if not all buildings in its path.

Flying debris, falling trees, collapsing buildings, and downed power lines are all hazards associated with tornadoes that can lead to injury or death.

Whether any specific location will be hit by a tornado on any given day is impossible to predict.

It is impossible to determine if a specific location will be hit by a tornado more than a few minutes in advance, and even then it's difficult.

Since records began in 1950 there have bee 56501 confirmed tornadoes in the U.S. the actual number of tornadoes is probably much higher as in the early half of this period the majority of weak tornadoes (which account for 89% of recorded tornadoes today) were missed.

As of June 14, 2012, the last cofnriemd tornado in the United States was three days ago on June 11.

Typical tornado damage includes snapped trees, material peeled from roofs, and some weak structures badly damaged.

Typical damage from an intense tornado includes large numbers of trees snapped or uprooted, houses partially or completely destroyed, and weak structures completely torn apart or blown away.

You could say that a tornado is a kind of very fast spinning wind that sometimes happens during a thunderstorm that can wreck houses.

People who follow tornadoes are usually called storm chasers. Well-known storm chasers include Reed Timmer, Tim Samaras, Howard Bluestein, and Warren Faidley.

Yes. There are no tornadoes in Antarctica, and it is doubtful that they occur in the Atacama Desert.

1:pack dehydrated food water and a first aid kit

2:pack flashlights and batteries

3:get into a bathroom or basement

4:put pillows over yourself

5:stay away from windows and stay down

Very often when a tornado enters its final stages it becomes narrow and the funnel starts to wind and bend, giving it a rope-like appearance. Hence the term "rope out."

There were 26 tornadoes in North Carolina in 2010.

Tornadoes don't kill people every day. On average about 80 people are killed by tornadoes each year.

A tornado descends from the base of a thunderstorm.

It is impossible to make such long-term tornado predictions for a specific locations.

There are tornadoes in California, but they are rare and usually weak. The main reason is that cold ocean currents of the California coast tend to stabilize the atmosphere, making it difficult for the strong thunderstorms that produce tornadoes to form as such storms need an unstable atmosphere.

Tornadoes hit most common in the Central United States, in a region known as tornado alley.