Tornado

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  • Български: Торнадо, Смерч
  • Deutsch: Tornado
  • Ελληνικά: Σίφωνας
  • English: Tornado
  • Español: Tornado
  • Français : Tornade
  • Čeština: Tornádo
  • Slovenčina: Tornádo
  • 日本語: 竜巻(トルネード)
  • 한국어: 토네이도
  • Русский: Смерч
  • 中文（繁體）‎: 龍捲風
  • 中文（简体）‎: 龙卷风

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air, going up from the ground along a warm front. It is caused from cold air rotating clockwise and downward and, therefore, causing another whirl of warm and moist air rotating upward and anticlockwise.

Photographs[edit]

  • Tornado em Araguari MG 29 set 2007 18 h.JPG
  • Altus Oklahoma Tornado.jpg
  • Binger Oklahoma Tornado.jpg
  • Cordell Oklahoma Tornado.jpg
  • El Reno Oklahoma Tornado (swirl).jpg
  • El Reno Oklahoma Tornado.jpg
  • Erick Oklahoma Tornado.jpg
  • Kngsmill Texas Tornado.jpg
  • Lakeview Texas Tornado.jpg
  • Quail Texas Tornado.jpg
  • Roanoke tornado.jpg
  • Roff Oklahoma Tornado.jpg
  • Seymour Texas Tornado.jpg
  • Shamrock Texas Tornado.jpg
  • Stoughton Tornado.jpg
  • Union City Oklahoma (early) Tornado.jpg
  • Union City Oklahoma Tornado (mature).jpg
  • Sweetwater Oklahoma Tornado.jpg
  • Waurika Oklahoma Tornado.jpg
  • Tipton Oklahoma Tornado.jpg
  • Tornade004.jpg
  • Tornade003.jpg
  • Tornade002.jpg
  • Tornade001.jpg

  • A tornado near Minco, Oklahoma.

  • Occluded mesocyclone tornado.

  • Project Vortex. The Dimmitt Tornado.

  • Project Vortex. The Dimmitt Tornado.

  • An occluded mesocyclone tornado rated an F3 by an NWS damage survey.

  • Occluded mesocyclone tornado.

  • Mayfield Tornado.

  • Tornado at beginning of life - condensation funnel has not yet reached ground.

  • Tornado with dust and debris cloud forming at surface.

  • Tornado with large dust cloud obscuring funnel shape.

  • The first tornado captured by the NSSL doppler radar and NSSL chase personnel.

  • The first tornado captured by the NSSL doppler radar and NSSL chase personnel.

  • Alfalfa Tornado.

  • Tornado1884.jpg

  • A rope tornado in its dissipating stage. The horizontal lines in the foreground are are power cables.

  • A shear funnel observed by members of the VORTEX project.

  • 1957 Dallas Tornado, approaching the city as a multi-vortex twister.

  • Waurika Oklahoma Tornado Front-Lit.jpg

  • Terracina (Lazio, Italia), piccola tromba d'aria marina (tornado sul mare) davanti la città l'11 agosto 2006

  • Valued image seal.svg  Category F5 tornado in Manitoba, Canada, 2007.

Radar[edit]

  • A classical "hook echo" as seen in the strongest tornado in the 1999 Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak.

  • A doppler radar image indicating the presence of a tornado over De Land, Florida.

  • Doppler radar image of a tornado-producing mesocyclone over Salina, Kansas on June 11, 2008.

Drawings[edit]

  • Fujita scale

  • Wisconsin Tornado Paths.PNG
  • Canton IL Tornado 1975.jpg

  • weather map symbol

Damages[edit]

  • F0 damage

  • F1 damage

  • F2 damage

  • F3 damage

  • F4 damage

  • F5 damage

  • Damage at Seventh and Rutger.jpg
  • Stoughton damage.jpg
  • Tri-State Tornado Damage Longview School.jpg
  • St Louis Jefferson-Allen Damage.jpg
  • AprèsUneTornade001.jpg
  • Omaha Tornado Damage 1913.jpg
  • Woodward Iowa Tornado Damage.JPG

  • Debris damage

  • House damage

  • Swirling patterns on the ground produced by the passing of an F3 tornado.

  • A door wrapped around a tree following the same tornado.

  • Tornado em Araguari MG 29 set 2007 18 h.JPG

  • Damage in Beecher, Michigan in 1953

  • A truck wrapped around a telephone pole and pulverized.

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