What are some names, dates and locations of tornadoes?
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Go to Yahoo or Google and search for Tornado Alley, that is the midwest part of the u.s. where tornados are most prevalent.. hope it helps!!
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An outbreak of strong convection occurred on 29 March 1998 across southern Minnesota and central Wisconsin. These storms produced several tornadoes, most notably at Lismore/Wilmont/Leota F2) in southwestern Minnesota and at Comfrey/Hanska/Courtland (F3/F4, 1 fatality) and at Nicollet/St. Peter/Le Center (F3, 1 fatality) in southcentral Minnesota. This marked one of only seven occurrences of tornadoes in Minnesota during the month of March. A tornado was also reported near Maxville, Wisconsin. In addition, large hail was reported with these particular storms (hailstone diameters up to 4.5 inches in Minnesota and 1.75 inches in Wisconsin). \n\nSynoptic conditions: A surface low was deepening in extreme southeastern South Dakota, with a warm front extending eastward across southern Minnesota into central Wisconsin. The air mass within the warm sector to the south of this front was very unstable, as surface temperatures reached around 80 F along with dewpoints in the low 60's F. The warm front served as the low-level focus for convective activity. \n\nStrong middle and upper-level winds were also advancing over the region -- wind profiler data at Wood Lake, MN and Blue River, WI showed 50 knot winds as low as 2.5 - 3.0 km, as well as strong low to mid-level wind shear (veering and increasing speed with height) that aided in the development of supercell convection. \n\nNear St. Peter, Minnesota, a 6-year-old boy was killed when the van he was in was thrown off the road and he was tossed 150 yards. In St. Peter, bricks littered the streets, storefronts were smashed, and the remains of one store was spread throughout a 6 block area. Debris from there was dropped onto St. Paul, 55 miles away. Many buildings at Gustavus Adolphus College were damaged. At a Le Center trailer park, the manager, Bob Bock, ran from trailer to trailer, alerting the residents, and directing them to the trailer park's concrete storm shelter. About half the trailers were destroyed, but none of the residents were seriously injured. At least 36 other people were injured during a rash of 7 tornadoes that swept through southern Minnesota. The towns of St. Peter, Le Center, and Comfrey were hardest hit.
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From a meteorological standpoint:\n\ncyclone- A broad word used for any system in which a large volume of air rotates about an area of low pressure. In the Northern Hemisphere, cyclones (usually) rotate counter-clockwise, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Most the storms below are examples of types of cyclones.\n\nhurricane/typhoon- these are actually, from a weather standpoint identical storms. They are called hurricanes in the North Atlantic and in the Pacific east of the International Dateline. They are called typhoons in the west Pacific. They are also called something else in other basins. What makes a hurricane a hurricane isn't just winds greater than 74 miles an hour, what makes it a hurricane is that it is a cyclone which develops over water and receives its energy from the heat of condensation. \n\ntornado- a rotating column of air spinning around a vortex both in contact with the surface and a cloud base.A tornado is a violent type of cyclone usually associated with other cyclones, fronts, or thunderstorms. In the US, the worst tornadoes are associated with mesocyclones (large rotating storms). Florida gets a lot of tornadoes due to the "pop-up" thunderstorms it gets in the summer. Tornadoes often occur associated with hurricanes (The instability in the air causes a lot of rotation in the air which cause tornadoes to form. If it doesn't touch the ground it is called a funnel cloud and technically, isn't a tornado.\n\ntwister- Simply a common word for tornado. I suppose some could say it is a word for the "classic" tornado shape- very thin cylinder. Not a scientific term.\n\nWhirlwind- Also called a dust devil, is like a small tornado, but usually without the usual trappings one would find associated with a tornado. With air, you can often get small pockets of low pressure which will simulate what happens in larger storms, but on a smaller scale. In deserts as the wind blows, you often get pockets of air which form these "mini" tornadoes which usually do no damage. You can even get similiar whirlwinds in downtown areas as the tall buildings change the natural flow of air, causing "mini-vacuums".\n\nMonsoon- Is a periodic, predictable wind, usually accompanied by storms/heavy rain. Usually found in areas with very well defined wet/dry seasons.\n\nA windstorm is a storm with very heavy winds but with little or no precipitation.
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Try looking at http://www.almanac.com/weatherhistory/locations/MI.php - you can look up by date and city
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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..
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Although tornadoes can happen at any time of year, they are especially common during the spring and early summer. May and June are the peak months in terms of numbers of tornadoes, but April appears to be the deadliest month—an average of 27 tornado deaths occurred during this month between 1950 and 1999; and one of the all-time worst tornado disasters occurred on April 3-4, 1974, when 148 twisters struck 13 states causing more than 300 deaths.
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Hurricanes, Blizzards, Monsoons, and Tsunamis
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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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For a tornatdo to form, there must be cold air, warm air, horizontally spiraling air (casued by the coriolis effect), flat land, no water present. There must be an oncoming wind, and cold and warm aiar that is colliding from the northern and souther latitudes. When the masses of air meet, the warm or moist air will rise, since its density is lower than cold or dry air, ando this will create an upward motion. Now, the oncoming wind will come along (it will be spiraling already), and when it makes contact with the area in which the air masses met, the spiraling wind will basically be violently set upright and so a tornado will form. In the northern hemisphere, the winds will go in a counterclockwise direction and in an inward spiral. (This will be partailly due to the Coriolis effect& if you're in the southern hemisphere, the winds will go in a clockise direction). This is the basic science of tornadoes, as i have just learned this year in my Earth Science course.
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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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http://www.safety.com/weather-and-disaster/articles.html\n\nhttp://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/katrina/
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The peak season starts in March and ends in May.\n\nhttp://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/050322_tornado_season.html
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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
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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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Tornadoes can happen anywhere, anytime, at any place if the conditions are right.
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Tornado Alley refers to the area of the United States affected most frequently by the strongest tornados.  The "heart" of tornado alley includes Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas - but tornado alley extends from North Dakota south to Texas and east into Ohio (including parts of at least 18 states).\n\nSee the web site "www.tornadochaser.net" for more detailed information.  From that site: "If you were to be exact about tornado alley, it would really be made up of hundreds of little strips, and never one large alley.  Tornado alley maps are all made up of a general area from data taken over a long period of time. Tornado alley should be thought of on a more yearly basis also, since weather patterns can change, making some states harder hit one year versus others, like Illinois in 1925, 1974 and 2004."
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Most tornadoes in the United States form in an area called "Tornado Alley". This area includes parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska.