I need help coming up with  my own myth about tornados?
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
198999
I don't think tornados have a preference. It seems they like either one, especially if there's a trailer park! Seriously though, they can happen anywhere when cold air meets warm air. That's all I know about how they're formed. \nBut, from watching the weather reports about tornadoes in "Tornado Alley", I've noticed it doesn't matter if areas are incorporated or unincorporated. However, if it is unincorporated, there's definitely a lot less damage to structures (buildings). But even in an unincorporated area, buildings can be smashed.
183885
Here is a story I told someone on here recently that wanted a laugh....it usually cracks people up. It is totally true...\n\n\nOne day, my brothers and sister in law were driving down a country road. They were behind a pick up truck for quite a while and noticed he was driving pretty slow. It was really windy out that day, so they just assumed it was an old man driving the truck and he was scared to drive fast in the wind, lol....\n\nanyway, all of the sudden a big gust of wind came and tore the plastic bed liner out of the back of the pickup truck. It goes flying up in the air and was spinning in circles all over the place. They slowed down and just watched it flying in mid air for a good 30 seconds. All of the sudden it went flying toward the ground and ended up hitting this guy on his lawn mower in the back of the head! The poor guy was just out mowing his lawn and all of the sudden something hits him from nowhere! Can you imagine what he was thinking? \n\nJust picturing the whole thing happening is hilarious.\n\nOh, by the way....long story short, the guy was ok.
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
1100204
storm chasers arnt employed.\n\nyou can be your own storm chaser though.\n\nweld some sheet metal and go chase the tornados. ftw!!1!
403623
One of my favorites was making a tornado in a 2 L soda bottle.\n\nWhat you do is take a bottle and pour it almost full of water. Get some grass and some small toys, like cars to put in there. I like to use the monopoly houses to. Then put a small drop of soap in then swirl the top a the bottle around really fast. There ya go a tornado. Then give a one or two paragraph summery on how a tornado is formed.
1005973
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.
687011
In order to be a "storm-chaser", you generally need a degree in Meteorology.  My guess is if you go to a school with a Meteorology program that's located in Tornado Alley, you may get to go on a few field-trips.  :)
126275
remember......tornadoes are not sraight!!\n\nthey slant because of the moving direction of the mix of hot and cold air.
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.
256868
Not at all true. Not only can they move west, there are sometimes tornadoes which don't spin counterclockwise.
535926
I live in Missouri...seen 10 + tornadoes in my lifetime in this area.  Tried chasing storms for a while a few years ago...went into Kansas and Oklahoma and seen most of them when I did that.  As a kid, I think I was 8, there was one that traveled about 1/4 mile from my house and we watched it.  Wild stuff....I love storms, the more destructive, the better.  My apologies to those of you who disagree with that statement, but it's just my opinion.  Don't like it?  Sorry 'bout your luck.
105363
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.
830822
you are in the midst of a big tornado.the time for you is to wake up & save yourself from this tornado, by inquiring about the truth.
1169838
Well if you live by cows or horses, stick around and watch. You can use this scale to determine what kind the tornado is.\n\nEverybody knows about the Fujita Scale which measures the power of tornados. But nobody really knows what all those types of twisters do to COWS. So here is the MOOJITA Scale...\n\nM0 Tornado - Cows in an open field are spun around parallel to the wind flow and become mildly annoyed.\nM1 Tornado - Cows are tipped over and can't get up.\nM2 Tornado - Cows begin rolling with the wind.\nM3 Tornado - Cows tumble and bounce.\nM4 Tornado - Cows are AIRBORN.\nM5 Tornado - S T E A K ! ! !
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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.
587200
!!!!!!TORNADOES!!!!!!\n\nur siting right next 2 me hahahahaha!!!!