Why do Tornadoes Hit Mobil Home parks more often than anything else?

Question

It is my opinion that the Electrons in a Thunder Cloud are sucked out of the cloud into the Whirling Wind and becomes a Giant Magnet that allows the tornado to be attracted to any metal. I.E. trucks, trains, Mobil Homes that have tons of steel as their supporting base.

Answer 1

When they hit trailer parks you'll hear about it. You never hear about the huge twister bouncing up and down across empty cornfields.

Answer 2

This is straight from the SPC (Storm Prediction Center):

Do mobile homes attract tornadoes? Of course not. It may seem that way, considering most tornado deaths occur in them, and that some of the most graphic reports of tornado damage come from mobile home communities. The reason for this is that mobile homes are, in general, much easier for a tornado to damage and destroy than well-built houses and office buildings. A brief, relatively weak tornado which may have gone undetected in the wilderness -- or misclassified as severe straight-line thunderstorm winds while doing minor damage to sturdy houses -- can blow a mobile home apart. Historically, mobile home parks have been reliable indicators, not attractors, of tornadoes.

Here's the link, so you can go have a look for yourself:

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/#Safety

BTW, tornadoes draw air from around the base of a storm (below the storm), and the air then shoots upward into the storm. Ergo, electrons are not transported from the parent storm to the tornado.

Answer 3

Mobile home parks are usually spread out on a flat surface, not on hills/mountains, etc. so they have more power to get through them. If they started building mobile homes on hills, we wouldn't hear as much about it, because the tornado would likely die out.

Answer 4

Mobil home parks tend to be built in large open flat areas - prime targets for tornadoes.

Answer 5

They don't, trailers are much more fragile than houses that are built on foundations. It takes less wind to damage a trailer than a house.

Answer 6

They don't. It's just that when they DO hit a trailer park, they do much more damage so we hear more about it.

Answer 7

they are on flat land....