Tornadoes

The Central Region is one of Ghana's ten administrativec regions. It is bordered by the Ashanti and Eastern regions to the north, western region to the west, greater accra region to the east, and to the south by the Atlantic ocean

Yes, Germany does get tornadoes, a few of which have been quite destructive.

Tornadoes can hit Alabama at any time of year, but tornado season in Alabama generally appears to run from March to April, with a second spike in activity sometimes occurring in November.

All regions of Texas, rural, urban, or suburban, can be hit by tornadoes. However, tornadoes are most common in the northern an eastern parts of the state.

As of 10/13/07 the mansion was still standing, but demolition was supposed to be sometime in Sept or Oct so it seems that it is only a matter of time.

I have been living in Gainesville for thirteen years and tornadoes don't come through Gainesville much. There occasionally are a few tornado watches at the schools, but tornadoes never strike. If there is a tornado nearby, it will just get a little stormy.

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You need to look up May 4th, 1978 in the Gainesville Sun fische archives at the Alachua County Library's main branch, downtown. (Google archives unfortunately do not carry Sun articles for that day.) That is a day when a number of tornadoes buzzed through the county, one starting early at 6:15am in the morning before sunrise, causing much damage. I was living here when that happened, and I remember that you couldn't drive much around town without witnessing something pretty incredible here and there - trees on cars, trees on homes, trees across power lines, and one place along NW 8th Ave, somewhere west of NW 34th St, where a tornado buzzed off the tops of trees as if some giant electric hair trimmer had been run through the forest.

For some reason, Gainesville (knock on wood) has found itself relatively lucky when it comes to tornadoes. It just hasn't experienced that many. But when it does it HAS experienced days of great damage, such as on February 2 of 1983, when a tornado ripped through town causing 1.5 million dollars in damage.

One tornado was reported near Ada on March 26, but the touchdown was not confirmed. No other tornadoes were reported in Oklahoma on that day. It is possible that the event near Ada was a mere funnel cloud rather than a tornado, or else touched down briefly with no damage. If such a touchdown did occur and was officially documented it would be rated EF0.

Yes. Moore has passed new building codes requiring all new residences to be able to withstand winds of at least 135 mph, equivalent to a borderline EF2/EF3 tornado.

There were 120 tornadoes in Texas in 2008.

2012.

It can, but very rarely.

Yes, Wyoming averages about 12 tornadoes per year. Strong tornadoes, though are rare.

Yes. Death valley can get tornadoes, but they are very rare. Dust devils are common though.

Yes.

1000 per year

Yes. Wisconsin gets tornadoes, some of which have been very destructive.

Most likely not. Similar objects have been found in trees and telephone poles, but it appears that they were driven into pre-existing cracks rather than solid wood.

10 to 20 mph would be a slow moving tornado. A typical tornado travels at 30-35 mph.

They do in the south near Kodak Island, but most are waterspouts.

Most of the tornadoes that hit North Carolina are spawned by supercells, much like the ones on the plains. As with all areas, most of the tornadoes in NC are weak, but the state has had tornadoes rated as high as F4 on the Fujita scale. NC occasionally experiences hurricane-spawned tornadoes, which are generally not as strong as supercell tornadoes.

It was actually two tornadoes, and they occured September 29th, 1938

As of May 6, 2015 the last known tornado in North Dakota was an EF0 southwest of Valley City on September 4, 2014. It caused some moderate tree damage.

Yes, it is possible. There has been a Tornado Watch issued for Plano, Texas for TODAY; May 21, 2013, effective until 10 p.m. CDT. That can be upgraded at any time.

Stay tuned to your weather channel, TV station, radio, but most importantly, Keep Your Eyes On The Skies.

The National Weather Service has a Storm Prediction Center, link provided below:

According to local news articles and Wikipedia, it was around 7:00 pm on July 14, 2000 when the tornado hit--which is the typical time of day when storms, especially ones with severe weather, will occur.

A gale is along hard wind that can reach a high speed of at least 39 mph usually resulting from a mid-latitude cyclone, rather than a tornado which can reach high speeds but tends to travel in a circular motion in a small area. A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column of air and can produce stronger winds than a gale.