Tornadoes

Tornadoes are often accompanied by severe thunderstorms, which can bring heavy rain as well. However, the rain associated with tornadoes is typically localized to the immediate vicinity of the tornado, rather than widespread.

The 1974 Xenia tornado was classified as an F5 on the Fujita scale and had a path width of approximately 1,300 yards (1.2 km) at its widest point. It caused widespread devastation in the town of Xenia, Ohio, and was one of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history.

A whirlpool is virtually any vortex that forms in water, usually sucking water inward and downward. They usually result either from a draining body of water, usually man made, or from interactions between flowing water and underwater features.

A tsunami is a large ocean wave or series of waves typically triggered by an underwater earthquake or landslide. Less frequently they can be caused by a volcanic eruption or meteor impact. They are not like regular waves, which wash in and out in a few seconds, but come as massive surges of water that keep coming in for several minutes. Like whirlpools, tsunamis are not weather related.

A cyclone is a large scale, rotating low pressure weather system in the atmosphere. The rotating air is drawn inwards and upwards. A typical cyclone is several hundred miles across. They can bring thunderstorms, rain, and/or snow depending on the type, season, and intensity. Some may also bring strong wind, but not always. There are three main types of cyclone: tropical, mid-latitude (also called extratropical), and polar.

Typhoons and hurricanes are essentially the same thing, both falling under the category of tropical cyclones. They are defined as tropical cyclones with sustained winds of at least 74 mph (119 km/h). The only difference is that such a storm in the Atlantic or eastern Pacific is called a hurricane, while one in the western Pacific (west of the International Date Line) is called a typhoon.

A tornado is a violently rotating vortex of air extending from the base of a thunderstorm to the ground. Tornadoes share some characteristics with cyclones, such as cyclonic rotation. However while cyclones are independent weather systems hundreds of miles across tornadoes are dependent on a parent thunderstorm and are rarely over a mile wide. This means that tornadoes are actually quite small in weather terms. Addition, while not all cyclones are violent or severe, a tornado is violent by definition.

No. A tornado produces the steepest pressure gradient of any weather phenomenon. An intense mid-latitude cyclone might have an overall pressure deficit comparable to a weak tornado, but that pressure gradient is spread out over several hundred miles. A tornado produces at least that much of a pressure drop over only a few hundred feet.

Based on storm chaser roger hill,s tornadoes 58 degrease is about the coolest tempture that a tornado could hit in. Though there has been other rumers that tornadoes have struck even when it was cooler. No one really know,s for sure.

The NWS shows ground temps as low as 36; the air above the ground can be much more humid and warmer. So that will influence the formation more than the actual ground temp.

i assume hurricanes cause more deaths since I know for a fact that more people die of lightening strikes than shark attacks and there aren't very many of them. Sorry if this doesn't help. try searching 'natural disasters'.

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Storm chasers typically try to avoid other storm chasers by communicating with each other about their intended locations and ensuring they spread out to cover more ground. In case of conflict, they generally try to maintain professionalism and respect each other's space to safely observe and document the storm.

The word tornado is an altered form of the Spanish word tronada, which means "thunderstorm." This in turn was taken from the Latin tonare, meaning "to thunder". It most likely reached its present form through a combination of the Spanish tronada and tornar ("to turn"); however, this may be a folk etymology.[6][7] A tornado is also commonly referred to as a twister, and is also sometimes referred to by the old-fashioned colloquial term cyclone.[8] The term "cyclone" is used as a synonym for "tornado" in the often-aired 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz. The term "twister" is also used in that film, along with being the title of the 1996 film Twister

Yes, tornadoes can form within the same cloud system as thunderstorms. Tornadoes typically develop from severe thunderstorms known as supercells, which are characterized by rotating updrafts. When conditions are right, the rotating updraft can intensify into a tornado.

Tornadoes can be associated with hurricanes, particularly in the outer bands of the storm. These tornadoes are typically weaker and shorter-lived compared to traditional tornadoes. The conditions within hurricanes, such as strong winds and a changing weather environment, can sometimes create the necessary conditions for tornado formation.

If the glass breaks, the pieces become projectiles and could be quite harmful to human life and/or cause great injury. Nobody would want to be in a room where pieces of glass were swirling about in an uncontrollable fashion.

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.