Tornado Size Comparison

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A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. The windstorm is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone,although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to name a weather system with a low-pressure area in the center around which winds blow counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern. Tornadoes come in many shapes and sizes, and they are often visible in the form of a condensation funnel originating from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, with a cloud of rotating debris and dust beneath it. Most tornadoes have wind speeds less than 110 miles per hour (180 km/h), are about 250 feet (80 m) across, and travel a few miles (several kilometers) before dissipating. The most extreme tornadoes can attain wind speeds of more than 300 miles per hour (480 km/h), are more than two miles (3 km) in diameter, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles (more than 100 km).

Various types of tornadoes include the multiple vortex tornado, landspout and waterspout. Waterspouts are characterized by a spiraling funnel-shaped wind current, connecting to a large cumulus or cumulonimbus cloud. They are generally classified as non-supercellular tornadoes that develop over bodies of water, but there is disagreement over whether to classify them as true tornadoes. These spiraling columns of air frequently develop in tropical areas close to the equator, and are less common at high latitudes. Other tornado-like phenomena that exist in nature include the gustnado, dust devil, fire whirls, and steam devil.

Tornadoes occur in North America, particularly in the area of the United States known as tornado alley,as well as in northern and east-central South America, Southern Africa, northwestern and southeast Europe, western and southeastern Australia, and New Zealand.Tornadoes can be detected before or as they occur through the use of Pulse-Doppler radar by recognizing patterns in velocity and reflectivity data, such as hook echoes or debris balls, as well as through the efforts of storm spotters.

There are several scales for rating the strength of tornadoes. The Fujita scale rates tornadoes by damage caused and has been replaced in some countries by the updated Enhanced Fujita Scale. An F0 or EF0 tornado, the weakest category, damages trees, but not substantial structures. An F5 or EF5 tornado, the strongest category, rips buildings off their foundations and can deform large skyscrapers. The similar TORRO scale ranges from a T0 for extremely weak tornadoes to T11 for the most powerful known tornadoes.Doppler radar data, photogrammetry, and ground swirl patterns (cycloidal marks) may also be analyzed to determine intensity and assign a rating.
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[skiptalbot]

Protips: Compare tornadoes using circles (or cylinders on an oblique angle) that show their areal coverage over the ground, instead of using similarly shaped funnel clouds that keep growing in height. The biggest tornadoes are much wider than they are tall, and most EF0 tornadoes are at least hundreds of feet tall (not slightly taller than a truck). Also your tornadoes are spinning the wrong direction.

[RDRNATN]

People don't realize that the EF system is based on damage. Since the El Reno tornado was over flat farmland it was labeled and EF-3. If that tornado went over a city the damage and death toll would have been the worst in years. Wind speeds were measure at over 300mph in cyclones *orbiting* the main tornado.
EDIT* Wow this comment started a war lol

[deadlybladesmith]

This is sort of a deceiving video because of the shape of the tornadoes. The larger ones are called wedge tornadoes, and are wider than they are tall. One specific one is the El Reno tornado that wasn't anything special in terms of height, but was the widest in history.

[treytonpoling]

Is nobody gonna talk about how that fire whirl killed 38, 000 people in 15 minutes?

[jada._marie]

I always thought the El Reno tornado was an EF-5. It's also crazy how Oklahoma had two historical tornado events within 11 days, especially how the tornadoes were basically in the same area. That tornado outbreak was CRAZY.

[hurricanemitch]

*size don't matter. streght matter!*

[_Just_Another_Guy]

Putting a well-known building or structures beside the tornadoes would've been helpful in visualizing the size.

Like the Statue of Liberty or Eiffel Tower.

[mackgiver]

For those who didn't notice the diameters of each tornado is in the little info bar below them. It was probably just easier to make them visually different vertically rather than having a tornado take up the entire screen because it was 4km wide.

[Northale]

I see dust devils all the time since I live in the desert. They’re actually pretty fun to walk into be you have to close your eyes.

[ramsesjsv]

How I learned about tornadoes
1% school
1% images
98% in the description of this video

[Tehom]

Hadn't heard the term "steam twister" before. Apparently it's a type of tornado that forms when lava enters a body of water.

[coltenguinn]

I lived through the Moore tornado in 2013. It was so close about 6 houses down from mine was destroyed. Honestly one of the most terrifying moments in my life. And then about a week and a half later El Reno was hit and caused significant damage. 2013 was one of the worst years for them. There was a tornado practically almost every week of May. Please do not think tornados are something to play around with. Don't go recording and make a safe space to hunker down in. Leave the photography and "Tornado Chasing" to the professionals. They have heavy armored vehicles that still get damaged and flipped. Imagine what can happen to a regular vehicle.

[kingdominicdc]

“Is there an F5 what would that be like?”

“The finger of God” 🌪⛈

[THEGREATMEMEWIZARD]

With the amount of tornadoes Moore gets they should change the name of the town to Nomoore.




Maybe the tornadoes will stop hitting there then?

[brettalexander]

The largest (tallest) waterspout ever was over 5 thousand feet tall and spotted off Western Australia a few decades ago.

[ericalbers]

The high school I went to was leveled by an F5 (old scale) back in the 50's. They had photos of it and of the damage in some cases in one hallway. The only thing that survived were the arched beams used as the main structural support for the primary gym. I lived in Springfield, MO and was in Joplin fairly regularly (that's actually were I was born.. unfortunately lol. It's a shit town). That place regularly gets really bad storms with winds from hell. I went out there 2 days after that tornado hit. The Midwest is a crazy place to live. I've been around a hurricane and drove through Biloxi after Katrina. It was really bad but comparatively I'd rather be in a hurricane any day than a tornado beyond EF0, or a microburst. Waterspouts look cool, they're nowhere near a tornado though lol.

Anyway, awesome video!

[benjamator]

The El Reno tornado was immensely downsized in this video... It looks so small when it was actually gigantic being the the same size in diameter as Central park in New York! But good video and cool looking animation

[toradora]

The music in this video is as eerie as a Tornado itself, really captures that sensation, well done.

Also, the jump in scale from an F1 to an F2 and then from an F4 to an F5 really showed the scale to be quiet spectacular.

[eadecamp]

Great video. The lightning and the music made it super creepy. I live in Tornado Alley right now (definitely not by choice), and I'm ready to go back to Hurricane Alley when my husband retires. I grew up in Coastal North Carolina and can handle hurricanes.
I used to work for a lady from Oklahoma. She gave us strict instructions--if we ever saw her going into the basement, go right behind her.