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This rotating updraft is known as a mesocyclone. [8] 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.
A tornado watch has been issued for parts of western Oklahoma and northwest Texas until 1 p.m. Saturday, with the potential for tennis ball-sized hail and winds reaching up to 70 mph, per CNN.
Here are some images and videos shared on social media: Search and rescue operations underway at Marianna RV park Search and rescue efforts underway at the FL Caverns RV Park after severe weather ...
On Fayette Avenue, the tornado caused destructive damage to numerous homes at EF4 intensity, killing an 82-year-old woman who initially survived but died from her injuries a week later. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] The tornado slightly weakened to low-end EF4 strength alongside Elgin Avenue; some homes on Flossmoor Avenue were swept away.
As the Lookeba tornado moved northeast towards the Caddo/Canadian county border, between 3:40 and 3:42 p.m. the supercell's mesocyclone broadened and weakened slightly; this was followed by the development of a second mesocyclone from the original to the east-southeast between 3:42 and 3:44 p.m. [10]: 2689 This marked the start of the decay of ...
After a tornado ripped through Columbia Wednesday night, one woman is trying to salvage the pieces of her home.
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air in contact with the surface and a cumuliform cloud base. Tornado formation is caused by the stretching and aggregating/merging of environmental and/or storm-induced vorticity that tightens into an intense vortex. There are various ways this may come about and thus various forms and sub-forms of ...
Tornado’s victims are identified 04:00 , Louise Boyle An 11-year-old boy was among the three people killed by the massive tornado which tore through a Texas Panhandle town on Thursday.