Mesovortex Synthesis

We also learned In earth science class that tornadoes typically are more likely to form when the sky is covered with cumulonimbus or towering cumulus clouds. However, in the Twister movie, we learned that often times meteorologists as well as forecasters will use lifted index's to pin point a tornados whereabouts. Also in the Twister movie, we learned that tornados are often times formed from funnel clouds created by cumulonimbus or towering cumulus clouds. Another thing we learned from the Twister movie is that a water spout happens when tornados crosse over water and the water then begins the get sucked up into the tornados suck zones forming a water spout. In addition, in the movie Twister we also learned about Sister Tornados which typically spawn next to an already occurring tornado. Most Importantly, in both earth science class, and the movie Twister, we learned about the Fujita Scale which is a scale that classifies rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornados inflict on human-built structures and vegetation. The Fujita Scale if rated F1-F5 with F5 being the most strongest and most severe tornados,

The way tornadoes form is when moist warm air and cool dry air meet and create instability and rotate around each other. Tornadoes can usually form more than one way. Other than the one I just showed you, a tornado can form from thunderstorms. The average time a tornado can last is about 4 to 6 hours till it starts to die down. When a tornado starts to form it will begin as a little gust of wind then it will turn into a whirlpool of mass destruction.

Tornadoes form when a cold air mass (chunk of air) sinks through the funnel, because it is more dense. While the hot air mass rises, because it’s less dense around the funnel making a tornado.

Tornadoes are an extremely important topic in today’s society, because they can occur anywhere at any time and be extremely dangerous. The purpose of this paper is to inform people on the importance and demographics of tornadoes. While doing research I discovered that a tornado is a narrow, rotating column of air which rotates violently and extends from the bottom of a thunderstorm to the ground (NOAA, 2014). The winds are so violent that they can destroy entire houses and buildings. You cannot see wind, sometimes this makes it impossible to see a tornado because they are started from wind. They become visible when they form a condensation funnel from water droplets, dust and debris (NOAA, 2014). This means that a person wouldn’t be able to see some tornadoes form, but once they begin moving and picking up debris and dust that’s when the tornado becomes visible. Picking up this debris which can include sticks, rocks and even cars and animals can make these storms pretty dangerous. Actually, out of every storm that happens in the atmosphere, tornadoes are the most violent of all atmospheric storms (NOAA, 2014). On average there is around 1000 tornadoes per year that scientist report. These one thousand tornadoes cause approximately 80 deaths and over 1500 injuries that are caused from tornadoes (NOAA, 2014). Tornadoes are extremely dangerous and should be taken

How do tornadoes form? Most tornadoes form from thunderstorms. When tornadoes form it gathers moist air from Gulf of Mexico and cool, dry air from Canada when these two types of air masses meet it creates a weakness in the Earth's atmosphere. This causes a change in wind direction and increase in speed and a rising in height. This creates an invisible destructive mass of air, It also creates a parallel twisting effect in the lower part of the earth's atmosphere. And lifting air inside the updraft tilts the rotation of the air to horizontal. This will create and deadly strong mass of wind.

Tornadoes are formed by cold and hot air when it combines together. When the hot air goes up , the cold air does down. "Normally the wind speed would be more than 300mph ". Tornadoes are like a huge thunderstorm.

A tornado is a violently rotating wind that is followed by a funnel-shaped cloud of debris that moves in a narrow path over a body of land. Tornadoes are formed by warm, wet winds and cold, dry air meeting from opposite directions, also known as wind shear. then the air mixes together and starts forming a funnel of wind, pulling clouds with it. Eventually, the funnel-shaped cloud touches down onto a large piece of flat land (e.g. a plain). For example, in the United States, tornadoes form in the spring and summer time because that is when the warm winds of the Gulf of Mexico travel north, and the cold airs of Canada travel south, eventually meeting in the central lands of the United States because the land is very flat there. It wouldn’t

First, tornados are formed by plenty of supercells. Actually, supercells are a huge cluster of thunderstorm clouds. In other words, heat rises up as it has a low vapor pressure and cold air drops down because of its high vapor pressure. (The National Severe Storms Laboratory) Because of this, the warm air in the end forms a vortex and forms a funnel cloud, also known as tornado.

Three basic ingredients are required for a thunderstorm to form: moisture, rising unstable air (air that keeps rising when given a nudge), and a lifting mechanism to provide the “nudge”.

Researchers believe that these Increasing tornado outbreaks are being caused by climate change. They believe it is climate change because have seen changes in the Meteorological quantities. This has to do with the atmospheric phenomena and weather of a region. Although they saw these change they found that these trends are increasing fastest for the most extremum outbreaks. Modelling studies have projected that CAPE will increase in a warmer clime lead to more frequent environs favorable to severe electrical storm in the U.S. However, they found that the meteorological course was not due to increasing CAPE but instead due to trends in storm congenator helicity, which has not been projected to increase under clime change.

Tornadoes happen all throughout the United States, as well as other parts of the world. Tornadoes are created when colder air meets with the warmer air, creating an unstable weather environment. The United States, according to Friedman (2013), leads the world in sheer volume of tornadoes. The geographic features of the United States affect the frequent appearance of tornadoes across the nation. Tornadoes often appear in the United States, which may come in various extents. Depending on the instability of air inducing the tornado, they may appear in devastating sizes, or less overwhelming breadth, with passive winds. Even though tornadoes can form on any land mass, given the right conditions, the United States is more frequently hit with tornadoes than any other country, but what effects lead to the frequent appearance of meager or extensive tornadoes across the nation?

The strongest tornadoes come from the kind of long-lasting fierce thunderstorms known as supercells. As the name implies, these are intense thunderstorms, which can produce large hail and downbursts in addition to tornadoes. Supercells are most common on the Plains in the Southeast and across the Midwest, but do occur elsewhere.

A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of two hundred and fifty miles per hour or more. Damage paths can be more than one mile wide and fifty miles long. In an average year, eight hundred tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in eighty deaths and over one thousand five hundred injuries. In the body of my essay, I will tell you about types of tornadoes, where tornadoes come from, where and when tornadoes occur, the damage they inflict, variations of tornadoes, and how to detect tornadoes.

In order to produce lightning, a cloud must first become electrified. Cloud electrification must occur on two spatial scales. First, a small scale process that charges individual hydrometeors must occur. Second, a large (~5 km) scale process that effectively separates the charges by polarity. There are several primary theories of how storms become electrified. These include a convective mechanism, and inductive mechanism, and lastly a precipitation – or non-inductive – mechanism. These three theories for storm electrification, including their strengths and shortcomings, will be discussed below.

Tornadoes appear when warm wind collides with chilled, dry air descending from clouds onto the ground. When the warmth travels through the cold circulation, the two winds began to race in destructive circles. The race like dance called mesocycles, attracts humid air from the traveling storm, resulting in the tornado to rotate faster. (National). Climate change, also known as global warming contributes to the rapidly disastrous whirl winds. Did you know a vast number of mines produce methane, forming a waste product? Methane makes a relatively potent greenhouse gas; even a small amount of it can gradually worsen climate change. Coal mines take fault for the responsibility for approximately six percent of the methane released due to human activities. (Pegasus). Global warming consists of pollution, burning of harmful gases, and deforestation. (Ecologic.org). Humanity in its everyday routine accumulates carbon dioxide naturally and irregularly. The power to twenty-four hour businesses and worldwide transportation relies on burned fossil fuels. Between the use of transportation,