What Causes a Tornado?

The swirling, funnel-shaped winds of a tornado are easily recognizable—and they can be very dangerous. But what causes these unique and violent weather phenomena?

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Enigmatic Journey by
Peter Neff, Mauricio Yazigi

[christeena]

Me up at 2:37 am
My brain: I wonder what causes a tornado

[johncgibson]

Finally some animation that explains updraft well.

[Schody_lol]

It's also worth noting, that a tornado's funnel doesn't have to reach the ground in order to cause significant damage. For example, the tornado that formed on the 7th of June, 2020 in Kaniów (Poland), has been rated as a low-end F2, (it ripped roofs off of at least 8 houses and in total damaged about 20). It's funnel never touched the ground.

[Annamarie-sgzz]

Some ways to know if a tornado is coming

1. Dark Green Sky
2. Large hail
3. Loud roar that sound like a fright train

[RaindropsBleeding]

Great video. First one I've found that explains the relationship between how the rotation starts and how it heads towards the ground.

[anime_weeb]

Why did I feel like I was at school 😂😂

[hekmatabdulrahimzai]

Thanks so much so we know about the tornado

[mightythor-]

I’m sitting in a shelter while watching this.

[afiqite]

Learned something new!! Was seeing a short related to it and had to find what is the cost of it!!

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[viktorvalky]

what a beautiful guitar in behind <3

[mysterylife]

Watching this after the devastating news in Kentucky and other states 🙏🏻

[danieluva]

Gonna wait for one here in Southern California 😬

[demapples]

Thank you for crediting the music on the bottom of the description

[muhamadalon]

I need this for my English research report 😅

[skepticfoxhound]

Was that supercell by Lubbock? I remember that. Picture went viral. I also took some. Scary stuff.

[ratmemer]

what causes tornado?
a person using my name

[surchris]

Just a personal observation, watching some super cell thunderstorms in the midwest, I always hear that it is rotating horizontal air that gets moved in to a vertical position that creates a tornado. I wondered as I watched supercells that had a very fast vertical speed seemed to always form tornados. Could a fast rising supercell be like a massive vacuum and suck up air that would create a low pressure area and start the rotation in the cloud and move down towards the ground as the vertical speed increased. The slower vertical growing super cells did not seem to create visible thunderstorms, but there could have been tornados in the cloud, just the vertical rise did not create as strong of a vacuum effect like the faster rising storms. Has anyone ever looked at tornado formation being created by a very fast rising storm ?

[PavelBuravtsov]

What is the safety place for tornado though?

[amyisasnorlax]

hey are you the one that made the weather radio?

[Rashidmeow]

Perhaps it was right to say that an tornado funnel did reach the ground for example
A tornado that formed was in the May 12 2014 in Oklahoma City its also worth it to say that