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Tornadoes

A tornado or twister is a violent, rotating column of air which typically has a speed ranging from 177 km/h to over 480 km/h. This devastating windstorm is usually characterized by its funnel-shaped cloud that extends toward the ground.

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Is there a tornado season?

Yes. Tornado season typically occurs in the spring.

10 safety tips for tornadoes?

1. If you are outside when a tornado hits and you cannot get inside quick enough, then you should go into a ditch and curl up into a ball as tight as you can.

2. If you are inside when a tornado hits, go into a interior room like a bathroom or closet with no windows on the lowest floor in the house. Try and get under something like a table or blanket.

3. If you are at school during a tornado, they will probably already have a drill, but if not, get up against the wall in a hallway or classroom with no windows on the lowest floor and get into the turtle tuck. The turtle tuck is when you get down on your knees, lean over with your head facing your knees, and your hands over your head.

What is the difference between a tornado and a tornado watch?

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending from the base of a thunderstorm to the ground. A tornado watch is a weather advisory that indicates that conditions in a region are favorable for the formation of tornadoes.

Where do you go after a tornado?

Go to a basement or cellar. If you do not have one go to an interior room or hallway on the lowest floor. Stay away from windows. And if you're in a car or mobile home during a tornado, immediately leave, and try to find a shallow ditch or something. Then crouch down low and make yourself a smaller target and cover your head with your arms or hands, etc. When you find the ditch or something, make sure it isn't near any trees or something so if they go airborne, you won't end up getting seriously injured or maybe even killed.

How do people that live in tornado alley prepare for it?

You would want good insurance, a good safe for jewels, documents, etc., you would want a good first-aid kit, plenty of flashlights, underground places to go (like a basement or perhaps just a closet that doesn't have fallable items). You would want to learn how to be very safe and what to do when perhaps a tornado does end up coming (God forbid it) like the classic on the knees, cover head and stay low lesson. Don't forget fresh water. blankets, battery radio and extra batteries. If you go to your basement , stay near the walls or the exit door. If a house caves in, it usually goes center first.Do the duck and cover when you actually hear"the train coming". It does really sound like that when it's right over you. When it's safe to come out, watch out for down power lines. Keep canned foods and juices in pantry or basement;if cool] make sure you have can openers.Shut off gas main at your house if any chance of a leak.Small towns usually have a tornado siren. For the start and the all clear. Don't come out til you hear the all clear, there may be smaller tornados coming . Listen to your transistor radio as much as possible for updates.

  • Check the news before and evacuate is necsisary. If not:
  • Have food, medical supply, and water on hand.
  • Battery powered flashlights.
  • Stay in a room with no windows, such as a big closet.
  • stay calm! play a game in the closet.

What happens if you shoplift in the US?

Depending on the store manager's mood that day, you could just get your hand slapped or if he/she's in a bad mood, they can elect to charge you with theft and file a police report. I believe the value of the goods would have some impact on the seriousness of the charge.

Probably better to pay for it or if you don't have the money .. walk away until you do.

Which is a violent whirling wind that moves over a narrow path on land?

A tornado is a violent whirling wind that moves over a narrow path on land, characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground. It is a destructive natural disaster capable of causing significant damage in its path. Tornadoes typically form from severe thunderstorms and can have wind speeds exceeding 200 mph.

What does FAST stand for?

Act fast. Also;

Face - check the facial expression is normal as sometimes a stroke victim may loose control of facial muscles.

Arms- ask the person to see if they can hold out their arms, check for weakness

Speech - see if they can say a simple sentence

Time- if any of the above is not normal, time to call 999. The quicker, the better. With more time lost, you will loose more of that person.

How a storm like a hurricane or a tornado speed up the process of erosion?

Hurricanes often cause severe flooding. The water moving over land causes erosion. Waves from hurricanes can erode beaches. The winds in tornadoes have sometimes been known to scour soil away, but this is rare, only occurring in the most violent tornadoes. Both tornadoes and hurricanes can destroy trees and other vegetation, which leaves the soil vulnerable to erosion.

Do tornadoes occur in certain parts of the world?

A tornado is more in the field of meteorology, though geography does affect weather.

What are the differences between tornadoes and tsunamis?

The true tidal wave is, of course, a product of the tides. There are places in the world where the tides produce a surge up a river mouth or some such restricted channel that is a notable ridge of water. They are not all that big: five-six feet high at the very most.

A tsunami is the wave produce by some catastrophic event. They can be very large indeed. An earthquake can cause an underwater ridge of sediment to collapse and the redistribution of the ocean water causes Tsunamis. An exploding volcanic island is a rarer cause for a Tsunami as are large meteorites.

What was the strongest tornado in Canada?

There are many huge storms in canada like tornados ....

They are very big in their own little way

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Hurricane Hazel (1954) is still considered one of the worst storms to hit Canada.

The Ice Storm (1998) caused extensive damage over a large area of Canada.

Numerous tornadoes have cause great damage and deaths.

The Pacific Storm (1996) dumped 85 cm on the Victoria BC area in about 24hrs.

It's a long, long list of big storms

How many cows die a year from tornadoes?

There is no official data as to how many cows die a year from tornadoes. Some tornadoes have been reported to have killed hundreds of cattle, but it is unclear how common such an event is.

Who discovered how tornadoes work?

Tornadoes were not discovered by a single person, as they have been documented throughout history. The understanding of how tornadoes work has evolved over time through research by meteorologists and scientists studying atmospheric conditions that lead to tornado formation.

What forms a tornado?

The formation of tornadoes is complicated.

First, a condition called wind shear, in which the speed or direction of the wind changes with altitude. If the shear is strong enough it can essentially tilt a thunderstorm, this separates the updraft and downdraft of the thunderstorm, preventing them from interfering with one another. This allows the storm to become stronger and last longer.

Additionally, if the wind shear is strong enough it can start the air rolling in what is called horizontal vorticity. This horizontal vorticity can then be turned vertical by a thunderstorm's updraft. When this happens, the thunderstorm may start rotating. The rotation is especially strong in an updraft called a mesocyclone. If the storm intensifies rapidly enough, a relatively warm downdraft called a rear-flank downdraft or RFD can wrap around the bottom part of the mesocyclone. This can then tighten and intensify its rotation and bring it down to the ground to produce a tornado.

How long has the longest tornado lasted?

If you mean the longest lasting tornado, the duration was 3 hours and 29 minutes. This was the infamous Tri-State tornado of 1925. It also holds the record for longest damage path (219 miles), fastest forward speed (73 mph), and highest death toll (695) of any U.S. tornado.

What natural disasters can a tornado cause?

A tornado is itself a natural disaster and is generally a result of other phenomena rather than a cause. Some large tornadoes have been known to spawn a second, smaller tornado called a satellite tornado nearby.

How deadly is a tornado?

It varies. Most tornadoes don't kill anyone. Among those that do kill, the average death toll is 2 or 3. Occasionally a single tornado may kill dozens of people. For a few tornadoes the death toll has gone well into the hundreds.

Do tornadoes have eyes?

Many tornadoes have a structure similar to the eye of a hurricane, but the only true eyes are in tropical cyclones. In Tornadoes and other storms it is called a weak echo region.

Why are tropical storms stronger than tornadoes?

A hurricane is its own storm system. They arise from large scale low pressure areas and thunderstorm complexes that organize and intensify over the ocean.

Tornadoes, by contrast, are the result of the interactions of relatively small scale wind currents within individual thunderstorms.

What is the mass of a tornado?

It can be as strong to knock out an entire town by ripping up homes and leaving a lot of people homeless.

The very strongest of tornadoes have winds in the range of 200-300+ mph and are capable of wiping houses from their foundations, but tornadoes this strong are very rare. Most tornadoes have winds in the range o 65-110 mph but rarely make big news.

Would a warm front or cold front bring hail and tornadoes?

Contrary to the common layperson's explanation, tornadoes are not triggered by the collision of a warm front and a cold front. This is based on a misreading of the statement that tornadoes form from a collision of warm and cold air masses along a cold front, which is itself an oversimplification. The front itself does not directly trigger tornadoes. When a warm and cold air mass collide, the warm air is forced up because it is less dense. If this warmer air mass is unstable enough, the collision can trigger strong thunderstorms. This is a very common occurrence, and most of the resulting storms will not produce tornadoes. If the storms are strong enough and wind conditions are right, these storms may then develop the strong rotation needed to produce tornadoes.

Is it dangerous to watch television during a thunderstorm?

For starters, many people have reported the computer blowing up, because the Hard drive is very sensitive to such High voltage, or the computer could die, same reason as why the computer would blow up, or the computer could be fine, who knows it could well be any of those three things.

During what months are tornadoes most likely to touch down in Wisconsin?

Wisconsin isn't at the most risk. Wisconsin usually has cooler weather, so usually they don't have tornadoes. But you never know, there could be a tornado in Wisconsin. But usually, states that are in Tornado Alley like Kansas, Texas, etc. or are more south like in Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, etc.