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NATURAL DISASTER ASSIGNMENT
TORNADOES
Tornadoes can happen any time, any where. Some tornadoes can have winds of 200 mph or more and can destroy everything in its path. ... The most destructive and deadly tornadoes occur from supercells, which are rotating thunderstorms with a well defined radar circulation called a mesocyclone. ...
Tornadoes can appear from any direction. ... Some tornadoes have changed direction amid path, or even backtracked. ... Most tornadoes last less than 10 minutes. ... Even though waterspouts are always tornadoes by definition, they don’t count in tornado records unless they hit land. ...
Most tornadoes, but not all of them, rotate cyclonically, which is counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise south of the equator. Anticyclonic tornadoes, which rotate clockwise in the northern hemisphere, usually are in the form of waterspouts. ... Some small rope type tornadoes can still cause violent damage. Some very large wedge type tornadoes that stretch over a quarter mile are very weak, but still cause damage. ...
Often hurricanes and tropical storms produce tornadoes, but not always. ... fail to produce any known tornadoes, while others cause major outbreaks. It is unknown how many tornadoes hurricanes produce over the water.
In Canada the Meteorological Service of Canada are the ones who usually forecast tornadoes. ... When this happens it is either with a multi-vortex tornadoes or very small, intense single-vortex tornadoes.
Approximate Word count = 1097
Approximate Pages = 4.4
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