Tornadoes

Yes. Strong to violent tornadoes can sometimes occur near a formation called a bow echo. In some cases, the north side of a bow echo can develop a circulation similar to the mesocyclone of a supercell. One of the more unusualy cases came on April 4, 1981 when a bow-echo produced an anticyclonic F4 tornado that struck the town of West Bend Wisconsin.

Tornadoes are generally 5 to 10 miles tall, which is 316,800 to 633,600 inches. Most tornadoes are 250 feet (10,000 in) across, but can reach up to two miles (126,720 in) in width.

That is difficult to determine as the vast majority of tornadoes never have their winds measured. The highest intensity rating a tornado can get is F5 (now EF5), but it is difficult to determine whether one F5 tornado is stronger than another. The highest winds ever recorded in a tornado were 302 mph in the Moore, Oklahoma tornado of May 3, 1999, though other tornadoes that never had wind measurements may have been stronger.

A few other tornadoes that might be candidates for the top 5 list include:

The Tri-State tornado of March 18, 1925

The Xenia, Ohio tornado of April 3, 1974

The Andover, Kansas tornado of April 26, 1991

The Jarrell, Texas tornado of May 27, 1997

Blizzards, tornadoes, and thunderstorms can all cause power outages by damaging or destroying power lines.

Damage can vary considerably. A weak tornado may only peel away shingles and break windows. An EF2 tornado may remove the roof or at least a large portion of it. An EF3 tornado may destroy all or most of the top floor. A tornado of EF4 or EF5 strength could completely level the building.

Tornadoes are produced by very strong thunderstorms. Thunderstorms typically produce rain.

Cyclones are a broad category of storm systems that include hurricanes and typhoons and occur at all times of storm.

Hurricanes and typhoons are essentially the same kind of storm only caller hurricanes in the north Atlantic and northeast Pacific and are called typhoons in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

North Atlantic hurricanes mostly occur in June-November. Northeast Pacific hurricanes mostly occur May-November. Typhoons typically occur April-January.

Tornadoes are most common in the months of April-June

Since official record keeping began in 1950 through 2012 there have been 971 tornadoes recorded in Ohio.

No. There are not pictures of the Branson tornado as it struck at night, however, there is security camera footage of the tornado striking an apartment complex.

Waterspout is the correct term. If a tornado forms on water by the same mechanisms that it would form on land (i.e. from the mesocyclone of a supercell) it is called a tornadic waterspout.

It relates to something called a cap, a layer of stable air that often forms a little more than a mile above the ground. This layer of air can prevent thunderstorms from rising up.

The cap is something of a double-edged sword for severe thunderstorms. In many severe weather outbreaks, the cap plays a crucial role in that it initially holds back storm formation, allowing the air below it to become highly unstable. When the cap weakens, the storms punch through and become very powerful due to the instability below.

However, in other instances the cap holds and the storms fail to develop.

So, busted high-risk days are often the result of meteorologists wrongly predicting that the storms will be able to break the cap.

In St. Louis City, only one. In the entire recorded history: 10. If you mean St. Louis County, it's 4. In it's entire recorded history, it's too many to bother to count.

Since data is incomplete for 2014, we will use the most recent 20-year period of 1994-2013. During this time there were 496 recorded tornadoes in Indiana.

They cannot be assessed in such a categorical fashion. For both phenomena, some are worse than others. Most earthquakes are too small to even be noticed, while others devastate whole regions. Hurricanes, generically called tropical cyclones, will often stay at sea, having no more effect than ships having to go around them. In the worst cases they can devastate a region. There have been both earthquakes and tropical cyclones with death tolls in the tens to hundreds of thousands. To those that experience them, a hurricane lasts much longer, but there is often a warning of a few days. Most earthquakes last less than a minute, but strike with no warning.

Scientists understand that tornadoes are a type of small but violent windstorm with both intense rotating winds and very strong updrafts.

Tornadoes form from strong thunderstorms, but scientists only partially understand the exact mechanisms of their formation. (see below links for more information).

Scientists know that tornadoes vary in strength, size, forward speed and duration. Although stronger tornadoes tend to be larger and longer lasting, this is not always the case. These tornadoes can cause anything from minor damage to total destruction.

Tornadoes usually follow a straight path, but can make turns while others have followed meandering paths.

Tornadoes often occur in outbreaks, where multiple tornadoes form from one storm system within a day or two. The strongest of tornadoes often occur in such outbreaks.

Some tornadoes break down to produce multiple suction vortices, which produce narrow, curved swaths of damage that is more severe than that from the rest of the tornado. The are call multiple vortex or multivortex tornadoes. Many of the strongest tornadoes are multivortex.

To my knowledge that record is held by South Dakota, which experienced 67 tornadoes on June 24, 2003.

No, tornadoes are not named. Unlike hurricanes tornadoes come and go too quickly to be named and there are far to many of them for there to be any semblance of an effective naming system.

Yes. There have been a number of tornadoes in Maryland. Most notable among these was the F4 that struck the town of La Plata on April 28, 2002.

As of May 2, 2015 the last tornado in Wichita was an EF3 on April 14, 2012. Additionally, an EF2 on May 19, 2013 an EF2 tornado dissipated just before it would have entered Wichita.

The best way to survive a tornado is to get underground, such as in a basement or cellar. There people are usually safe. If there is not basement you should get to an interior room or hallway. The idea is to put as much between you and the tornado as possible.

A tornadoes color is determined by how the light falls on it, and often the color of soil that it is lifting up.

The F stands for Fujita. It comes from the Fujita scale which is used to rate the strength of tornadoes based on the severity of the damage they cause. It runs from F0 at the weakest, which only causes minor damage, to F5 at the strongest, which causes total devastation.

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Florida has a very warm moist climate, which provides a lot of energy to fuel storm that can produce tornadoes.

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