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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.
A diagram showing the contributing weather systems to Tornado Alley in the United States, a loosely-defined area that is prone to tornadoes. Tornadogenesis is the process by which a tornado forms. There are many types of tornadoes, varying in methods of formation.
However, tornadoes are capable of both much shorter and much longer damage paths: one tornado was reported to have a damage path only 7 feet (2.1 m) long, while the record-holding tornado for path length—the Tri-State Tornado, which affected parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925—was on the ground continuously for 219 ...
A tornado is seen West of Dodge City, Kansas moving North on May 24, 2016 in Dodge City, Kansas.
How do tornadoes work? Tornadogenesis is a word used to describe the formation process of a funnel. Bruce Thoren, a forecaster at the National Weather Service, said that this process is still not ...
An EF4 tornado with wind speeds ranging from 166 to 200 mph can cause devastating damage. Most to all walls on a well-built house will likely collapse, and high-rise buildings can sustain ...
Tornadoes of 1913. 1913 Easter tornado outbreak; Tornadoes of 1916. Tornado outbreak of June 5–6, 1916; Tornadoes of 1917. March 1917 tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 25 – June 1, 1917; Tornadoes of 1918. 1918 Tyler tornado; Tornadoes of 1919. Tornado outbreak of April 9, 1919; 1919 Fergus Falls tornado; Tornadoes of 1920
The largest tornado ever documented was a multiple-vortex tornado. It struck El Reno, Oklahoma, on May 31, 2013, as a rain-wrapped tornado, taking the lives of tornado researcher Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and their TWISTEX colleague, Carl Young. This storm also took the life of local amateur chaser, Richard Henderson. [2]