a tornado is a cloud that can be an f-scale like f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 and f0
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Get an empty 2 liter soda bottle and fill it half-way with water. Hold the top and spin it in a circular motion. This will cause the water to look like a tornado.  Technicaly, a tornado is caused by a cold air mass "wedging" a warm air mass up. Another mass of air then clashes into them and causes the air to spin.
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look like: lightning\nsound like: thunder\nsmell like: an electrical fire\ntaste like: bitter lemons\nfeel like: running through 4 feet of wet snow
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No, mother nature is mother nature. Storms have always been a part of the climate. Earthquakes because the Teutonic plates shift. Tornado's by severe storms. Why would you assume that God would be out to get us? He created everything( if that is your belief) so it follows that He created the weather too.
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clouds would be very pretty
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According to answers.com\nhttp://www.answers.com/tornados%20\n\n"Tornadoes develop from severe thunderstorms, usually spawned from squall lines and supercell thunderstorms, though they sometimes happen as a result of a hurricane. They are believed to be produced when cool air overrides a layer of warm air, forcing the warm air to rise rapidly, though tornadoes over water (waterspouts) frequently are observed forming in the absence of convection or apparent strong surface temperature differences. Tornadoes, lightning, and sometimes hail are associated with thunderstorms. Many tornadoes appear at the tail end of mesocyclones. On weather radar screens, a characteristic "hook echo" marks the area where tornadoes are likely to exist."\n\nThe reference will give good idea for how do tornados form
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I love to watch them on tv. I love a thunderstorm near my house. Never been in a tornado or hurricane but they look really scary on tv. I think I would be very scared if I had to go thru a tornado of hurricane. We had a tropical storm one time with winds up to 70 mph. It was awful and lasted all night. I was so worried about the trees crashing on my house. They didn't but the ones in the far back fell. The house shook.
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clouds make fricton and it makes static electricity i think?
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Hail forms as a result of intense updrafts in the core of a thunderstorm.  Thus, for visual cues, a tall, towering cumulonimbus cloud in an anvil shape approaching is more likely to have hail than your run-of-the-mill storm.  Also, more intense storms generally have more lightning, so that can also be a cue.\n\nLarge hail (that which can be very dangerous) occurs, by defenition, in a severe thunderstorm.  Thus, if your area is under a severe thunderstorm warning, hail greater than 3/4" in diameter can be expected, as can winds in excess of 58 mph and possibly a tornado.\n\nSky color has little directly to do with estimating the severity of a storm, as time of day (angle of the sun) and proximity of the storm will affect the appearance of the sky.
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ignor the atmospheric changes, it would be 4.8s if I'm not mistaken
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Tornadoes Would be second for me. In an F-5's path very little is left standing or alive if not underground. All other natural disasters even Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Wildfires don't even come close to %100 total destruction in its path, wake, or epicenter. An F-5 may not be a %100 but it is closest of any of the so far mentioned ones.\n\nBut Out of all Natural Disasters I think A supervolcano Eruption May Eclipse all Experienced Natural Disasters!
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i believe if you take two two liter pepsi bottles and fill one with water and tape the openings together so it looks like a giant egg timer when you turn one bottle upside down and swirl it a little it will cause a tornado effect.
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Really professional modeling and graphic dispays of real weather is IDL. There is a student version.\nOne of the examples is the cross section of a thunderstorm. One could download information from the weather service and plot/model it on your computer. I have a little trouble learning it, but there are real rewards eventually. Also there is a site with a program for globes on icosahedrons using satelite data, Mars, Moon pictures and print out a globe.
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I've seen several funnel clouds, those are an awesome and chilling sight. By the time you notice them they're pretty well-formed. Almost all of them last a few seconds and either dissipate or roll back up into the sky. We were actually involved with a real tornado three years ago, It was an F1-F2 that stayed on the ground for almost thirty miles. I heard  the siren go off in the next town, we got the kids and the dogs in the basement. My wife and I kept going outside and looking around for something more threatening than the usual oncoming thunderstorm. After about 10 minutes we heard the freight train coming and headed downstairs. The house shook enough that the dust came down from the rafters. It lasted less than thirty seconds and then a whole lot of rain came down. The tornado missed us by 200 yards. The telephone pole in the corner of my back yard was okay, the one next to it was torn out of the ground and thrown across the road. The one next to that was torn out and thrown a hundred yards. No one in my rural neighborhood was hurt, but they did wind up bulldozing and rebuilding three homes. The home across the street had the front porch torn off and thrown over the roof, exposing a large hole in the roof deck that let in enough rain to collapse most of the ceilings. The path of damage was maybe a half-mile wide. Homes outside that range did not see much damage. I was surprised that the wind was toward the tornado, not away from it. The funnel was enough of a low-pressure point to draw the air towards it at a hundred-and-some miles an hour. The broken trees have repaired themselves, the homes and farms have been rebuilt, The only lasting reminder is a lot of sheets of tin barn roof still wrapped around treetops. We're in Northern Ohio. Moderate tornado damage is at least a yearly event in the area. Huge destructive disastrous storms like they get in the plains are a rarity.
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cyclones are the same as tornadoes and occur on land.\n\ntyphoons are the same as hurricanes and occur along the coastline.  In the western hemisphere we call the hurricanes (like in the Americas). In the eastern hemisphere they are called typhoons (like in India).
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Short answer, they are called "tornado;" as you will see below, tornadoes usually rotate in a counter-clockwise direction in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern.  In the rare event of it spinning in the opposite direction, which I believe was the nature of your question, it is called an "anticyclonic tornado."\n\nTornadoes normally rotate in a cyclonic (counterclockwise) direction in the northern hemisphere, as the warm air in which thunderstorms usually form sweeps north and jet streams come from the west, creating a situation in which the storms rotate. In the northern hemisphere, this rotation is counterclockwise, and in the southern hemisphere, clockwise. The tornadoes usually rotate the same way. Sometimes opposite direction swirls develop under a thunderstorm. About 1 in 100 tornadoes in the northern hemisphere rotate in an anticyclonic direction.\n\nI hope this helps.
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Well winds in a tornado can reach speeds of 300 mph, this in itself is enough to cause total destruction.\n\nPressure is also lowest at the center of a hurricane, or any other low-pressure system. The air is being pulled up away from the ground and thus the pressure is low.
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Yes,as answer 1 says,a tornado can occur anywhere.They develope in the clouds and have nothing to do with geographical pull,ect..