Tornadoes

A tornado is a violent rotating column of air. A tornado packs the most violent winds that accrue on earth, most tornados are several hundred meters in diameter and wind speeds from 40 to 379 mph. Tornados size or destruction is catergarised in the Fujita Scale. They range from a F0 to a F6. A F0 is the weakest tornado. A F0 has very minimum damage. It has wind speeds from 40 to 72. It does some damage to …

…cool dry air from the North and worm humid air from the gulf of Mexico. When the two types of air clash they form cumulonimbus clouds. This cloud zone is called a squall line. This is were most violent weather accrues. A squall line creates a rapidly mass of warm humid air. As the air rises, more warm air rushes to replace this translocation. The inward rushing air starts to rotate, thus creating a tornado.