Are there tornados in Europe?
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Tornadoes form in storms all over the world, and though they have been recorded in all fifty U.S. states, they form most famously in a broad area of the American Great Plains, Midwest, as well as South known colloquially as Tornado Alley. In pure number of incidences, the United States reports more tornadoes than any other country, however, the Netherlands is the most tornado-prone country relative to land area.
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Any of the states in the region of the country referred to as Tornado Alley.\n\nThe site of most tornadoes a year aren't actually in Kansas, but in Texas and, in some years, Oklahoma...
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When I was a student pilot, my flight instructor and I were flying from McAllen, TX back to Harlingen,TX. We spotted a small tornado below and to the right of us about five miles. We watched it for several minutes and reported it to the Flight Service Station in the area. It even made the news that night. That was in 1967.
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The U.S. is definitely the tornado capital of the world.\n\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/weather/tg/wtorwhat/wtorwhat.htm
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remember......tornadoes are not sraight!!\n\nthey slant because of the moving direction of the mix of hot and cold air.
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No, don't think a tornado is a possibility. But if they tied themselves together and lit their farts, do you think they would take off?  :)
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It would depend on two things - the strength of the tornado, and the speed it travels along the ground.\n\nIf the tornado wasn't too powerful (say, F3 or lower) an object as massive as a tank would be safe from the winds.  If it could travel fast enough to keep up with the tornado, you could cruise to the center of the tornado with no problems.
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There are three reasons why North America has so many powerful tornados.\n\n1. Cold dry air from the North.\n2. Warm moist air from the gulf of Mexico\n3. The Great Plains.\n\nWhen cold dry air from the north collides with warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, the moisture in the warm air condenses forming clouds. When this occures in a way that warm air gets trapped below the cloud cover, and cold air gets trapped above, it creates very unstable conditions.\n\nThe warm air wants to rise and the cold air wants to fall. The result is often a large thunderstorm known as a supercell. \n\nWhen this occures over the central portion of North America, known as the Great Plains, the flat landscape allows for the easy formation of horizontal columns of circular wind. One theory on tornado formation asserts that tornados form when these circulating columns get caught in an updraft (rising warm air).\n\nWhile tornados can form just about anywhere, even in mountainous regions, the Great Plains of North America provides ideal conditions.
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Yep it all depends on if the  warm air current is rising up to meet a cold one that is coming down and they clash enough to make a vortex. Tornado's can happen pretty much anywhere.
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India is a very common place where tornadoes occur.\n\nOther ones include China, most middle-eastern countries (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan), and northern Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Chad)\n\nIn general most places around 10-20 degrees above the equator.
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Tornadoes occur on all continents of the world except Antarctica, with the Great Plains of the United States accounting for 70% of the total number.  The area known as "tornado alley" has become a haven for storm chasers and a killing field for deadly twisters.  It stretches up through the central United States through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, and other central states.
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I grew up in an area where we had a lot of tornadoes. I have seen this and it does happen, however, it doesn't always happen, and sometimes a thunderstorm will have greenish clouds and no tornado. I think it is related to the way the light is filtered through the clouds, and perhaps the really big clouds that come with tornadoes may have more of this effect. There is a good article at the link below:
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Oklahoma has more real tornados per square mile than anywhere else in the world.  Florida has more per square mile, but most are F0 and F1, not enough to do anything.  Texas has more overall, but it's a bigger state.  According to the NOAA, Oklahoma City has had more tornados than any other city.
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i read in a tornado book that i bought, tornado alley in the U.S. gets the most tornadoes in the whole world.  Conditions are just right for it here.  There is nowhere else that tornadoes are common, but tornadoes can happen anywhere
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Earthquake any day!  I used to live in California - they are not so bad but Tornados scare the bejesus out me!
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Cold fronts, fast-moving jet stream, dry line, occluded front, and cold dry air moving into warm moist air will all contribute to extreme weather.  Often, in the southwest by the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma as well as New Mexico, several of these factors will occur at the same time which can result in a severe weather outburst with several tornadoes, large hail, and lots of rain.
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Tornado Alley might have the MOST frequency of tornadoes, but the worst type of tornadoes , I believe,are "waterspouts": tornadoes that form on oceans (yikes! where to hide from that one?)  They occur fairly around warm waters (including Florida).\n\nCheck these chilling pictures out\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Trombe.jpg\nhttp://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/images/big/wea00312.jpg