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This is usually the first visible stage of development of a tornado. The gallery below shows the three stages of development of a mesocyclone and a view of the storm relative motion on radar of a mesocyclone-producing tornado over Greensburg, Kansas on 4 May 2007. The storm was in the process of producing an EF5 tornado at the time of the image.
The tornado lifted approximately two miles (3.2 km) southeast of Malinta. [133] In total, the tornado killed four people and injured 17 others along a path of 53 miles (85 km), while reaching a peak width of 880 yards (800 m). [133] [140] The tornado caused at least $30 million (2002 USD) in damage just in the city of Van Wert. [133]
Clockwise from top: The photo of the Washington, Illinois tornado going through the neighborhood of the city at high-end EF4 intensity with estimated windspeed up to 190 mph, Damage inflicted to the Georgetown Commons Apartment complex, Doppler weather radar imagery of the Washington, IL tornado, showing a debris ball on reflectivity with a deep correlation coefficient, showing a huge amount ...
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.
In the video, the grandmother can be seen clung to a recliner as the twister rips off a wall of her bedroom. Woman recalls horrifying moment tornado hit home: 'I thought I was going to die' Skip ...
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 ...
Brandee Anthony, aka the "Vero Beach Mermaid" on social media, was in her home Wednesday, about two miles north of Lakewood Park, when a tornado began to spin through about 21 miles from Fort ...
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 ...