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This best seems to describe a multiple vortex tornado. This is a tornado that has smaller vortices, called suction vortices, circling inside the main vortex. The development of such a tornado is complicated. Let's start with a single vortex tornado. Contrary to popular belief the strongest winds in a tornado are at the edge of the funnel rather than at the center. However, the lowest pressure in a tornado is at the center. While air mostly moves up in a tornado, in some especially strong ones, the low pressure causes a downdraft to move down the center of the tornado. This is a process called vortex breakdown. When this downdraft reaches ground level the air must move outward, but it soon meets the air flowing into the tornado. This interaction creates and area of very strong convergence where the inflow and outflow meet, and some of the tornado's angular momentum gets converted into smaller vortices within the main circulation.
These suction vortices create looping swaths of more severe damage within the main damage path.
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Do tornadoes form on mountains?
Tornadoes can form in mountains, but most do not.
What do hurricanes and tornadoes form over?
Hurricanes form over warm ocean water. Tornadoes can form just about anywhere.
Do tornadoes form around 3PM and 9PM?
Tornadoes can form at any time of day or night. The time from 3 PM to 9 PM is the most common time for tornadoes to form.
Do tornadoes normally form in tropical oceans?
No, tornadoes typically form over land in association with thunderstorms. Waterspouts, which are tornadoes that form over water, can occur in tropical oceans under specific conditions, but they are generally much weaker than tornadoes that form over land.
When do tornadoes not form?
Tornadoes do not form under clear, sunny, or stable weather conditions, of if the weather is too cold. They cannot form without thunderstorms.
Can tornadoes form?
Yes, tornadoes can form. Hundreds, even thousands of tornadoes form every year.
Where do tornadoes form you the sky or on ground?
Tornadoes form in the sky within severe thunderstorms. They develop when warm, moist air rises rapidly and interacts with cooler, drier air at higher altitudes, creating a rotating column of air. Once this rotating column descends and touches the ground, it becomes a tornado.
Do tornadoes form on mountains?
Tornadoes can form in mountains, but most do not.
Do tornadoes form from stratus clouds?
No. Tornadoes form from cumulonimbus clouds.
Do Clouds Form a Tornadoes?
Yes, tornadoes can form from thunderstorms that develop within large, moisture-rich clouds. The rotation and updrafts within these storm clouds can create the conditions necessary for tornado development.
What is the climate when tornadoes do form?
Tornadoes typically form in conditions where warm, moist air at the surface meets cool, dry air aloft. This creates instability in the atmosphere, which can lead to the development of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. High wind shear and a lifting mechanism, such as a cold front or dry line, are also important factors for tornado formation.
Why do tornadoes not form in antarcica?
Antarctica is too cold for tornadoes to form. Tornadoes need energy from warm air.
Do tornadoes come form clouds?
Yes. Tornadoes form from the clouds of a thunderstorm.
Do tornadoes form when it is cold and windy with no clouds?
No, tornadoes typically form in warm and moist environments in the presence of a strong vertical wind shear and unstable atmosphere. Cold and windy conditions with no clouds are not conducive to tornado formation.
Does tornadoes form by land or water?
Tornadoes most often form on land, but they can form over water.
What kind of clouds to tornadoes form from?
Tornadoes mostly form from cumulonimbus clouds. :D
Is various form of energy from tornadoes?
No it does not come from tornadoes . :] .....
