deadman walking a native term for tornados???
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I've never heard it been used in weather but some most-known related slang terms to tornadoes are: twister ,whirlwind ,wedge , funnel , gustnado, landspout, willy-willy , or rope.\n\nI hope thats enough.
256868
Not at all true. Not only can they move west, there are sometimes tornadoes which don't spin counterclockwise.
782180
The tornado picks up tons of debris,and the howling winds\ncreate the most of the sound.\n            Old Fujita Scale:                New Fujita Scale:\nF-0       40-72 mph                           65-85 mph\nF-1      73-112 mph                          86-110 mph\nF-2     113-157 mph                       111-135 mph\nF-3     158-206 mph                       136-165 mph\nF-4      207-259 mph                      166-200 mph\nF-5      260-318 mph                      More than 200 mph
969063
one myth could be that tornadoes occur when a small asteroid hits the atmosphere with enough rotational velocity to twist the air\n\nor that they happen when god sneezes\n\nor that there is always at least one tornado on earth at any given time
779346
Hey...try living in Arkansas...when we get wind gusts, they get up around 200-400 miles per hour and go round and round...you get to see cows, cars, and churches fly....LOL
126275
remember......tornadoes are not sraight!!\n\nthey slant because of the moving direction of the mix of hot and cold air.
114067
In native american mythos, storms and lighting are displays of the anger of the gods, so to speak--that there are weather spirits and lightning spirits that "speak" during storms.
410625
YES!!  So thankful!!  I live in Kentucky and recently witnessed the devastation of a tornado.  When you see the news reports on television, its not real, do you know what I mean?  But when a tornado cuts a path right past your door and leaves everything torn and ragged besides for your home..you get real thankful in a hurry.  Then to show your thanks, you go and help your brothers and sisters who have lost so much by giving as much as you can...
1097410
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?  :)
975582
You can't tell by just stepping outside, unless you see a funnel cloud or something.  Tornadoes are usually created from cold fronts or occluded fronts.  You have very warm air ahead of the front, and very cool air behind it.  The difference in the air temperature pushes air up, creating an updraft.  Bottom line, tornadoes are caused by warm and cool air in the same area.  And you have to have very strong winds in the upper atmosphere.  70 to 80 mph.  That helps with the updraft.
854999
whirlwind, revolving mass of air resulting from local atmospheric instability, such as that caused by intense heating of the ground by the sun on a hot summer day. Examples of whirlwinds are waterspouts, tornadoes, small whirls of dust or leaves, and the sand whirls of the desert, called dust devils or dust whirls.
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wirlwind, dust devil.
398680
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!!
47429
Go here http://www.fema.gov/hazards/tornadoes/\nand here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornadoes
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Natural disaster...tornado, earthquake, etc.
860876
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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I don't live in U.S.A., but I can't tell you for sure that the tornados aren't named as hurricanes or typhoons. A tornado has a scale of intensity. The Fujita Scale. A tornado is classified as Category F0 to F5. A tornado F0 is a tornado that produces light damage. Some damage to chimneys; branches broken off trees; shallow-rooted trees pushed over; sign boards damaged. The wind speed has to be less than 76 mph. A F1 tornado has some moderate damage. The lower limit is the beginning of hurricane wind speed (73 mph); peels surface off roofs; mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned; moving autos pushed off the roads; attached garages may be destroyed. The maximum limit is 112mph. A F2 tornado produces considerable damage. Roofs torn off frame houses; mobile homes demolished; boxcars overturned; large trees snapped or uprooted; light-object missiles generated. It's classified between 113 and 157 mph. A F3 tornado has severe damage. Roofs and some walls torn off well-constructed houses; trains overturned; most trees in forest uprooted; heavy cars lifted off the ground and thrown. Wind speed parameters are between 158 and 206 mph. A F4 tornado produces devastating damage. Well-constructed houses leveled; structures with weak foundations blown away some distance; cars thrown and large missiles generated. The winds blow between 207 and 260 mph. Finally, a F5 tornado has an incredible damage. Strong frame houses lifted off foundations and carried considerable distances to disintegrate; automobile sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 m (100 yd); trees debarked; steel reinforced concrete structures badly damaged; incredible phenomena will occur. That's all. I hope that this helped you.