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Tornadoes can occur anywhere in the U.S., according to the National Weather Service.Tornadoes are “most common in the central plains east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Appalachians.”
Although each tornado is unique, most kinds of tornadoes go through a life cycle of formation, maturation, and dissipation. [4] The process by which a tornado dissipates or decays, occasionally conjured as tornadolysis, is of particular interest for study as is tornadogenesis, longevity, and intensity.
Weak tornadoes, or strong yet dissipating tornadoes, can be exceedingly narrow, sometimes only a few feet or couple meters across. One tornado was reported to have a damage path only 7 feet (2.1 m) long. [28] On the other end of the spectrum, wedge tornadoes can have a damage path a mile (1.6 km) wide or more.
This scale helps categorize each tornado by its intensity and its area, and can estimate the wind speeds associated with the damage caused by the tornado. The EF scale are divided into six categories:
Severe tornado damage occurs with an EF3 tornado, which has wind speeds of 136 to 165 mph. Some walls of well-constructed houses can be torn off. Most trees in the path of the twister will be ...
In mid-April, the National Severe Storms Laboratory along with Texas Tech University begin the Low-Level Internal Flows in Tornadoes (LIFT) Project, with the goal to collect data from the “damage layer” of tornadoes; from ground level to 20 m (22 yd) above the surface. The LIFT project deployed 11 times between April-June, gathering data ...
Science & Tech. Sports. Weather. 24/7 ... be evident during post-storm damage surveys. Intense tornadoes can occasionally be accompanied by smaller funnels, known as satellite tornadoes, that ...
A tornado is an example of an extreme weather event. This tornado struck Anadarko, Oklahoma during a tornado outbreak in 1999.. Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, severe, or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past.