Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air in contact with the surface and a cumuliform cloud base. Tornado formation is caused by the stretching and aggregating/merging of environmental and/or storm-induced vorticity that tightens into an intense vortex. There are various ways this may come about and thus various forms and sub-forms of ...
A waterspout is defined by the National Weather Service as a tornado over water. However, researchers typically distinguish "fair weather" waterspouts from tornadic (i.e. associated with a mesocyclone) waterspouts. Fair weather waterspouts are less severe but far more common, and are similar to dust devils and landspouts.
Completed Tornado Diagram. Tornado diagrams, also called tornado plots, tornado charts or butterfly charts, are a special type of Bar chart, where the data categories are listed vertically instead of the standard horizontal presentation, and the categories are ordered so that the largest bar appears at the top of the chart, the second largest appears second from the top, and so on.
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.”
Tornadoes are some of nature's most violent storms.When severe weather after a thunderstorm leaves widespread destruction in a community, we often think the damage was caused by a tornado — but ...
Could a modern weather scientist "kill" a tornado? How do tornadoes work? Tornadogenesis is a word used to describe the formation process of a funnel. Bruce Thoren, a forecaster at the National ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 December 2024. Vortex or tornado occurring over a body of water For a pipe carrying water from a roof, see Downspout. For regrowth on trees, see Water sprout. For the performance act of regurgitating fluids, see Water spouting. A waterspout near Thailand in 2016 Part of a series on Weather Temperate ...
Any tornado that occurs over water is classified as a waterspout, and when one moves over land, it is designated as a tornado. A cargo ship sails near the path of a waterspout near the beach in ...