Tornadoes

it can get up to two and a half miles wide

In some ways, yes. Most often the damage a tornado causes is used to estimated its peak wind speed. The peak wind estimated in turn is used to assign it a rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale. In some instances mobile Doppler radar has remotely obtained wind speed measurements from inside a tornado, though this method is limited in that it cannot measure winds near the ground where damage occurs. In a handful of cases instruments have been place in the path of a tornado and taken direct measurements. This is difficult, as most instruments cannot withstand the extreme winds of a tornado, and even then the tornado misses the instruments in most cases.

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The Andes are more prone to earthquakes as they are located at, and were in fact formed by, a subduction zone just to the west of South America. Tornadoes are more common in the interior and eastern parts of South America.

I think its the cordillera

Tornadoes can vary in speed from stationary to over 70 mph. Speeds in the range of 25 to 35 mph are the most common.

Barbara Boxer is 70 years old (birthdate: November 11, 1940).

No because a ship would be deep down into a thing and a tornado would not be able to lift it up.

However, considering its size a tornado of EF4 or EF5 intensity might be able to lift it if it were exposed on the surface, but probably couldn't carry or throw it very far.

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The Tri State tornado first started north of the town of Ellington, Missouri.

Yes, but very few and only on the Atlantic side. The conditions in the region make tropical cyclones (as they are called in that area) very unlikely.

Tornadoes occur in all season but are most common in spring and early summer. At this time there are frequent collisions between warm, moist air masses and cooler and/or dryer ones that can trigger thunderstorms. Additionally, at this time of year the lower atmosphere is warming faster than the upper atmosphere, creating instability that supports thunderstorms. Finally, strong upper level winds left over from winter create wind shear which gives thunderstorms the rotation they need to produce tornadoes.

Small tornadoes are not necessarily weak, although they are usually weaker than large ones. Some small tornadoes have been rated F4 and F5. So although most small tornadoes have winds of less than 110 mph, some can still have winds in excess of 200 mph.

A tornado watch is given out if general weather conditions favor the formation of tornadoes over the next few hours. A PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation) tornado watch may be issued if conditions favor the formation of strong to violent tornadoes. A tornado watch usually covers an area at least the size of a state.

A tornado warning is issued if a tornado has been spotted or detected or the threat of one is imminent. A tornado emergency is an informal variety of tornado warning meaning that a large tornado is approaching a populated area and is expected to cause major damage. A tornado warning usually covers an area about the size of a county.

Since 2000 there have been 53 tornadoes in Arizona.

Tornadoes can lift people up, but they usually are thrown out of the vortex before being carried very high. Most of the people killed in tornadoes are struck or crushed by debris.

I never done any research on the exact subject, but here goes:

1. The "night watchmen" would see a tornado coming from the lightning flashes, people would be woken up to run for their lives if need be.

2. During the daytime, it would be the same. If a tornado started heading for you, you would get away from it to avoid the "supernatural" punishment it was sending.

Modern buildings don't protect people from tornadoes, so you could expect the same reaction that we have today back then when one would touch down, intense fear.


If you read a book like "The Everyday Life of the North American Indian," then you can see that Native Americans were pretty adapted to dealing with chaotic forces, because they saw events like these as the work of some kind of nature or ancestor spirit.

Alongside this, I'd like to add, since there are no records of deaths by tornadoes, I think it would be safe to say that more Native Americans were killed almost into genocide by idea of 'Manifest Destiny' which was a belief, and a popular political term of the time, insisting that the United States in the 1840's was destined to control the "Indian Nations", and they decreed they're own power over the land, killing off many many Native Americans, probably more in 30 years of westward expansion, then the 15,000+ years of living on the continent most common for tornado activity. (note: tornadoes are present in other parts of the world including Europe and the Middle East. ex: Tornado in Mykanów, Poland, August 15, 2008, there were 3 fatalities.)

Yes. Although it is not in Tornado Alley, Indiana gets its fair share of tornadoes.

Yes. Eastern Colorado actually gets a fairly high number of tornadoes.

Nothing as there is no such thing as an F6 tornado. The highest a tornado can be rated is F5. F5 and EF5 tornadoes are generally, but not always larger than the average tornado. If you can get a good look at one you will note that the rotation is extremely violent and there may be a large debris cloud.

Tornadoes have been recorded on every continent except Antarctica. The most destructive tornadoes usually occur in the United States of America, which has led to the misconception that they only occur there. But some very destructive and often deadly tornadoes have occurred in neighboring Canada and Mexico as well as in Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Britain, Bangladesh, India, Australia and others.

They were in Greece in 2004 the next ones are in Bejing this year and in 2012 they are in London 1980 - Moscow, USSR 1984 - Los Angeles, USA 1988 - Seoul, S.Korea 1992 - Barcelona, Spain 1996 - Atlanta, USA 2000 - Sydney, Australia 2004 - Athens, Greece