Tornadoes

Certain construction methods can help reduce damage from both hurricanes and tornadoes. Installing hurricane ties in the roof-wall connection reduces the chances that the roof will be torn off. Getting a house without a gabled roof is also recommended, as gabled roofs are more susceptible to wind damage. You can also have extra touch glass in the windows. Most house windows cannot withstand winds over 100 mph, but some types can hold up in winds of 120 and even 140 mph.

The odd one out is a tornado. Hurricanes and typhoons are both strong tropical cyclones and their own weather systems. A tornado is neither tropical nor a cyclone, but is instead a small-scale weather event that is dependent on a larger parent storm.

A tornado can have stronger winds than a hurricane.

The very strongest tornadoes have winds just over 300mph while a the very strongest of hurricanes have winds of about 190 mph or sometimes more

However, tornadoes and hurricanes that strong are very rare.

If a pyramid were to be struck by a tornado, it would likely sustain damage to its exterior walls and possibly lose some stones or show signs of structural weakening. The tornado could cause debris to scatter around the base of the pyramid and may result in some visible destruction to nearby structures or buildings.

* Dark, often greenish sky. Sometimes one or more of the clouds turns greenish (a phenomenon caused by hail) indicating a tornado may develop.

* Wall cloud, an isolated lowering of the base of a thunderstorm. The wall cloud is particularly suspect if it is rotating.

* Large hail. Tornadoes are spawned from powerful thunderstorms and the most powerful thunderstorms produce large hail. Tornadoes frequently emerge from near the hail-producing portion of the storm.

* Cloud of debris. An approaching cloud of debris can mark the location of a tornado even if a funnel is not visible.

* Funnel cloud. A visible rotating extension of the cloud base is a sign that a tornado may develop.

* Roaring noise. The high winds of a tornado can cause a roar that is often compared with the sound of a freight train.

* Tornadoes may occur near the trailing edge of a thunderstorm and be quite visible. It is not uncommon to see clear, sunlit skies behind a tornado. They may also be embedded in rain and not visible at all.

Yes. Buildings and homes can collapse in a tornado. One common way this happens is the roof comes off, causing the walls to become unstable. Depending on the strength of the structure this would take and EF2 or EF3 tornado for partial collapse, and likely an EF4 for complete collapse. In an extremely powerful tornado such as a high EF4 or EF5 houses are blown away rather than collapse. Weak tornadoes usually do not cause significant structural damage.

No, the longest a tornado has been known to last was about 3 and a half hours.

In some ways they can be thought of that way, though that concept is not quite accurate.

While both a tornado and a hurricane involve low pressure and powerful, rotating winds a hurricane is several orders of magnitude larger than a tornado and is its own storm system.

In both a hurricane (through what is called the storm surge) and a tsunami seawater moves onto land. Like a tsunami a hurricane also involves large waves. However, a tsunami is far more violent and travels further inland than a storm surge or storm driven waves of the same height.

Overall a hurricane is more close related to a tornado as they are both weather events, though of very different sorts while a tsunami is produced by geologic forces.

Tornadoes in the southern hemisphere spin clockwise with the exception of rare anticyclonic tornadoes.

The average diameter of tornadoes typically ranges from 50 to 600 feet, but can sometimes exceed 2 miles for larger tornadoes. The size of a tornado can vary greatly based on its intensity and the environment in which it forms.

The benefits of installing storm windows are several fold. By doing so, the key is preventing damage to your home from strong winds, gusts, and flying debris. The other is cost savings and energy efficiency.

No, hurricanes typically last for days to weeks, not just a few minutes. These powerful storms can develop over the course of several days and can last for several days as they move across the ocean and make landfall.

Tornadoes and hurricanes are powerful weather phenomena that result from the transfer of heat energy from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere. They play a role in redistributing heat and moisture around the globe, helping to regulate the Earth's temperature and climate. Despite the devastation they can cause, they are natural processes that are part of the Earth's atmospheric system.

In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's house is transported to the Land of Oz by a tornado.

Technology has led to the creation of doppler weather radar in the past 30 years. This radar can detect the signature of a tornado or its parent circulation, which allows advance warnings to be issued without the need for visual confirmation. More recently, dual-polarized radar was developed, which can distinguish between rain, hail, and tornadic debris. If tornadic debris is detected it means that a tornado is or recently was lifting material into the sky.

Neither. A cyclone is a broad scale low pressure system with cyclonically spiraling winds. A hurricane is one variety of cyclone, but not all cyclones are hurricanes. A tornado is an entirely different type of weather phenomenon.

The damage from a microburst appears to radiate out from the center while tornado damage occurs along the path that the tornado took. In a microburst trees fall or are bent outwards, with trees that neighbor each other generally falling in the same direction. In a tornado downed trees to not have the same order, and fall in multiple directions. Those left leaning may hint towards an inward or rotating flow. Some tornadoes have roughly crescent shaped areas of more severe damage, indicating a multivortex structure.

No, tornadoes do not come directly out of clouds. Tornadoes form within thunderstorms when there are specific atmospheric conditions present, such as strong wind shear and instability. Everyday clouds do not have the potential to produce tornadoes.

Yes, tornadoes in the southern hemisphere typically rotate counterclockwise due to the Coriolis effect. This effect is caused by the rotation of the Earth and influences the direction of rotation of weather systems in different hemispheres.

No, palmtrees do not stay in the ground during hurricanes or tornadoes. The strong winds from these natural disasters can uproot palmtrees due to their shallow root systems, especially if the winds are extremely powerful.

The funnel of a tornado consists of water droplets which condese as a result of a temperature drop inside the tornado that results from the low pressure. Temperature decreases with increasing heght, alowing more water vapor to condense.

To a limited degree, yes. There are two main levels. The first level looks at general conditions and determines if a general area (such as a few states) is at risk of experiencing tornadoes in the next few hours or days. If conditions are right for tornadoes, then this will be mentioned in a weather outlook. If conditions look favorable enough a few hours in advance, a tornado watch may be issued

The second level looks for strong rotation in thunderstorms which can produce a tornado in a matter of minutes. In this case a tornado warning is issued for areas in the path of the storm.

On average, Alabama experiences around 50 tornadoes each year. The state has a higher frequency of tornadoes compared to other states, primarily due to its location in the region known as "Dixie Alley."

The Xenia tornado was an F5. It killed more than thirty people and a significant portion of Xenia. It was a very tragic event.

It began in Bellbrook, Ohio at 4:42 pm and moved northeasterly out of Warren county into southeastern Montgomery, and finally into central Greene county where it entered the Arrowhead subdivision and basically destroyed it. It continued through Xenia and the downtown area killing five people in the A&W Root Beer stand and headed for Central State University.

When it was over at least thirty-two people had been killed and subsequently two more firefighters died after attempting to fight a furniture store fire two days later. More than 1,600 were injured and thousands were left homeless. Weatherman Gil Whitney was one of the many heroes of that day who spotted the hook echo at WHIO-7 television station and went on the air to alert the viewers.

Doppler radar is used to predict tornadoes when they're already occurring.But aside from that tornado predictions are very uncertain and difficult to make. The durations of tornado warnings are counted in minutes and even then there are many false alarms.