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11 wrz 2024 · All tornadoes, and most other severe local windstorms, are assigned a single number from the Enhanced Fujita Scale according to the most intense damage caused by the storm. EF0 (weak): 65-85 mph, light damage. EF1 (weak): 86-110 mph, moderate damage. EF2 (strong): 111-135 mph, considerable damage.
Tornadoes occur in many parts of the world, including Australia, Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. Even New Zealand reports about 20 tornadoes each year. Two of the highest concentrations of tornadoes outside the U.S. are Argentina and Bangladesh.
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Under the storm and closer to where most tornadoes are found, evidence of a supercell and the likelihood of a tornado includes inflow bands (particularly when curved) such as a "beaver tail", and other clues such as strength of inflow, warmth and moistness of inflow air, how outflow- or inflow-dominant a storm appears, and how far is the front ...
28 sie 2019 · August 28, 2019. • 8 min read. Tornadoes are vertical funnels of rapidly spinning air. Their winds may top 250 miles an hour and can clear a pathway a mile wide and 50 miles long. Also known as...
21 maj 2019 · May 21, 2019. • 8 min read. How tornadoes form and how they die is not fully understood, yet scientists probing those mysteries—and aiming to improve warning systems—have pinpointed key risk...
3 dni temu · tornadic thunderstorm (Left) In a tornadic thunderstorm, the rotating updraft that produces the tornado extends high into the main body of the cloud. (Right) Anatomy of a tornado: Air feeds into the base of a tornado and meets the tornado's central downflow.
2 dni temu · Tornado, a small-diameter column of violently rotating air developed within a convective cloud and in contact with the ground. Tornadoes occur most often in association with thunderstorms during the spring and summer in the mid-latitudes of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
