wut is a tornado?
2007-04-14 18:29:47 · 4 answers · asked by Klaus 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
it comes with rain. it takes away evrthing. it swirls around. Haven't you seen it? i mean...i haven't seen it with my own eyes, i have seen in TV
2007-04-14 21:42:12 · answer #1 · answered by SG the best!!! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air which is in contact with both a cumulonimbus (or, in rare cases, cumulus) cloud base and the surface of the earth. They are measured in an F scale ranging from F1 to F5 with F5 being the worst violent. Here are some pictures of tornadoes
http://www.waco-texas.com/city_depts/fire/images/tornado.JPG
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/seymour.jpg
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h183/danteetc/tornadoes.jpg
2007-04-15 01:40:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well the violently rotating column of air part the other guy said is right, but the F0-F5 scale is wrong......as of February 1, 2007 the scale was modified from the original Fujita-Pearson scale to the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale, both range from 0-5, however, there are now 28 different criteria that are examined to classify a tornado....things such as building materials, building structures, and surroundings.
2007-04-15 01:58:59 · answer #3 · answered by do_sctc145 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Duhhhh......wut?
2007-04-15 02:38:18 · answer #4 · answered by squeezie_1999 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋