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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.
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
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, ...
A diagram of tornado alley based on 1 tornado or more per decade. Rough location (red), and its contributing weather systems. Tornado Alley, also known as Tornado Valley, is a loosely defined location of the central United States and Canada where tornadoes are most frequent. [1]
Tornado intensity is the measure of wind speeds and potential risk produced by a ... A diagram of the Fujita scale as it relates to the Beaufort scale and the Mach ...
For a tornado to form in this manner, a rear-flank downdraft enters the center of the mesocyclone from the back. Cold air, being denser than warm air, is able to penetrate the updraft. The combination of the updraft and downdraft completes the development of a tornado. Tornadoes that form in this method are often violent and can last over an ...
English: A diagram of the location of tornado alley and the related weather systems. Heavily based on File:Tor alley.jpg (public domain, NOAA) ...