22 thoughts on “Latvian Reacts To Top 10 Most Infamous F5 or EF5 Tornadoes”
Its a perfect mix of ingredients. Warm air mixing with cold fronts and high wind sheer. This is possible bc Canadas cold air comes down, the rocky mountains out west creates cold fronts and wind sheer and then warm air from the gulf of mexico rises..This creates a vortex of storms. Causing rotation. If rotation gets tight enough it forms a tornado.
Tornadoes do happen in Europe – they happen pretty much everywhere. But they are much more common in the US than most places due to the geographical layout. The classic setup in the Great Plains is warm, humid air being drawn north from the Gulf of Mexico clashing with cold, dry air from the Rocky Mountains. If the wind is changing direction with altitude, that can create spin which can tighten up into a tornado.
Actually tornadoes do happen in other countries. The belief that no tornadoes happen in other countries is a misbelief. The deadliest tornado in the world was in Bangladesh killing over 1000 people. We have gotten at least 90% of all f5 to ef5 tornadoes though. These are mostly in Tornado alley but we do get alot in dixie alley and Illinois. The Rocky and Appalachian mountains do play a big role in this as well get outside from between these ranges and destructive tornadoes go down significantly.
Tornadoes are a manifestation at the ground of winds aloft. The whole thunderstorm spins like a carousel, and they can be tens of miles wide and over twelve miles high (60,000 ft+ or 18,300 m). At times, the circulation tightens up and carries down to the surface, usually coinciding with a strengthening of the updraft as well. If you look at all tornadoes, there is a significant upward motion involved, with large debris being carried miles high and many tens of miles downrange. Small items, such as family photos and the like, have been found over 100 miles away from the house it destroyed.
i know i never seen you before until now and i heard you question on how tornadoes form and how they form is the following: A supercell (A type of thunderstorm) forms, it forms what we call the mesocyclone which is the rotating part of the cloud that lowers, a funnel appears from that mesocyclone as a rope like structure and it touches down and begins it's life and go through a various stages of it's life in a certain amount of time such as a brief rope tornado being on the ground and going through it's stages in a brief moment of time while a long-tracked, powerful large tornado lasts a while and will go through multiple intensities while causing a path of damage if it hits something. At the end of it's life ropes out and gets eaten by the mesocyclone (what i mean is that the tornado ropes out and dissipates) and that said mesocyclone could die out, do a hand off (All the energy goes to the next area of that said storm) or the mesocyclone could just recycle all over again and produce another tornado.
I live 35 minutes away from Moore Oklahoma, I've lived in Oklahoma my Whole life. I watched the May 3rd 1999 EF5 on TV and saw the damage in person many times because I lived in Oklahoma City in 1999.
It looked like a Nuclear Bomb went off. It looked flattened as far as the eye could see, it looked to go on forever.
there is no safe place in tornado alley to move to. they can come down anywhere the best place to take shelter is underground. there have been tornados in every country.
"does anyone know how a tornado appears?" actually no we don't know how it starts. We know what happens when they start and we know the conditions that allow for them to start, but humans have never had a camera up in the middle of the clouds at the moment a tornado begins to form inside them. And we also don't know why some storms which have to potential to make tornadoes (the right conditions and wind) but they don't. It's part of why tornado footage is still so valuable and why people storm chase to capture footage, because we need all we can get for tornado research.
There are areas if Europe that get tornados, Same with Asia specifically China. You just need the right ingredients and the US has a big area that gets the right ingredients.
Tornadoes form in the United States more than anywhere else in the world and with great strength because of our North/South oriented mountain ranges, both in the East and West of the country, along with weather patterns dictated by the jetstream. Supercell storms grow very strong when warm, moist air rises into the atmosphere. As that updraft intensifies, it gradually begins to rotate. Think of the funnel that forms as water goes down the drain in your sink. Warm, moist air goes up in a vortex, and a cold, dry, sinking air wraps around the backside forming a mesocyclone with a rear flank downdraft. These unstable air conditions feed the torrent of air that becomes a tornado. If the storm gets strong enough up top, a powerful tail dips down to the ground in an incredibly focus spiral with obscenely fast wind speeds. That is a tornado. Warm, moist air and cold, dry air colliding over a large swath of land with the ideal temperature and moisture conditions to fuel the cyclonic rotation forming within a supercell storm.
There’s a reason people are more afraid of tornadoes than any other disaster, it’s like they have their own mind and they know what they’re doing. Instead of it just being a weather disaster it seems like it’s an evil entity that’s coming right towards you.
I think your confusing the power flashes for lightening. Often when tornadoes encounter transformers, they'll cause power flashes when they're destroyed. I've seen it in the distance from an EF2 tornado that hit Abilene, TX several years ago. It is a decent indicator of a powerful tornado on the ground. Tornadoes are caused by the meeting of warm moist air with cool dry air, which cause "super cells" or rotating storms to form. This rotation of air is what can lead to a lowering, where the wind vortex reaches the ground. They happen almost everywhere on earth, but are notably more powerful in parts of North America, South America, and Asia.
Its a perfect mix of ingredients. Warm air mixing with cold fronts and high wind sheer. This is possible bc Canadas cold air comes down, the rocky mountains out west creates cold fronts and wind sheer and then warm air from the gulf of mexico rises..This creates a vortex of storms. Causing rotation. If rotation gets tight enough it forms a tornado.
The reason America gets so many and such strong ones are bc of geography. Gulf of Mexico, Canada and The Rocky mountains are the 3 key factors.
F5 and ef5 means fujita 5 and Enchansed fujita 5
Tornadoes do happen in Europe – they happen pretty much everywhere. But they are much more common in the US than most places due to the geographical layout. The classic setup in the Great Plains is warm, humid air being drawn north from the Gulf of Mexico clashing with cold, dry air from the Rocky Mountains. If the wind is changing direction with altitude, that can create spin which can tighten up into a tornado.
means ef enhanced Fujita scale and Fujita scale aka f scale
Tornados have occurred everywhere in the world apart from Antarctica
Actually tornadoes do happen in other countries. The belief that no tornadoes happen in other countries is a misbelief. The deadliest tornado in the world was in Bangladesh killing over 1000 people. We have gotten at least 90% of all f5 to ef5 tornadoes though. These are mostly in Tornado alley but we do get alot in dixie alley and Illinois. The Rocky and Appalachian mountains do play a big role in this as well get outside from between these ranges and destructive tornadoes go down significantly.
Tornadoes are a manifestation at the ground of winds aloft. The whole thunderstorm spins like a carousel, and they can be tens of miles wide and over twelve miles high (60,000 ft+ or 18,300 m). At times, the circulation tightens up and carries down to the surface, usually coinciding with a strengthening of the updraft as well. If you look at all tornadoes, there is a significant upward motion involved, with large debris being carried miles high and many tens of miles downrange. Small items, such as family photos and the like, have been found over 100 miles away from the house it destroyed.
i know i never seen you before until now and i heard you question on how tornadoes form and how they form is the following: A supercell (A type of thunderstorm) forms, it forms what we call the mesocyclone which is the rotating part of the cloud that lowers, a funnel appears from that mesocyclone as a rope like structure and it touches down and begins it's life and go through a various stages of it's life in a certain amount of time such as a brief rope tornado being on the ground and going through it's stages in a brief moment of time while a long-tracked, powerful large tornado lasts a while and will go through multiple intensities while causing a path of damage if it hits something. At the end of it's life ropes out and gets eaten by the mesocyclone (what i mean is that the tornado ropes out and dissipates) and that said mesocyclone could die out, do a hand off (All the energy goes to the next area of that said storm) or the mesocyclone could just recycle all over again and produce another tornado.
I live 35 minutes away from Moore Oklahoma, I've lived in Oklahoma my Whole life. I watched the May 3rd 1999 EF5 on TV and saw the damage in person many times because I lived in Oklahoma City in 1999.
It looked like a Nuclear Bomb went off. It looked flattened as far as the eye could see, it looked to go on forever.
Oh, you missed hearing about the Deadman Walking tornadoe lore.
there is no safe place in tornado alley to move to. they can come down anywhere the best place to take shelter is underground. there have been tornados in every country.
I just dropped in to say.
"Worse than atomic bombs."
No
Nukes are worse.
You can’t truly control weather. Especially tornadoes. And the only way to really survive an EF5 is to be underground. They are monsters.
"does anyone know how a tornado appears?" actually no we don't know how it starts. We know what happens when they start and we know the conditions that allow for them to start, but humans have never had a camera up in the middle of the clouds at the moment a tornado begins to form inside them. And we also don't know why some storms which have to potential to make tornadoes (the right conditions and wind) but they don't. It's part of why tornado footage is still so valuable and why people storm chase to capture footage, because we need all we can get for tornado research.
Lightning is such a common weather event that it impacts nothing with tornados
An F6 damage is, if anything, just a theory.
The damage is incomprehensible. It has never been seen and I pray it never happens.
There are areas if Europe that get tornados, Same with Asia specifically China. You just need the right ingredients and the US has a big area that gets the right ingredients.
22:22 that wasn’t lightning that was a power flash
Tornadoes form in the United States more than anywhere else in the world and with great strength because of our North/South oriented mountain ranges, both in the East and West of the country, along with weather patterns dictated by the jetstream. Supercell storms grow very strong when warm, moist air rises into the atmosphere. As that updraft intensifies, it gradually begins to rotate. Think of the funnel that forms as water goes down the drain in your sink. Warm, moist air goes up in a vortex, and a cold, dry, sinking air wraps around the backside forming a mesocyclone with a rear flank downdraft. These unstable air conditions feed the torrent of air that becomes a tornado. If the storm gets strong enough up top, a powerful tail dips down to the ground in an incredibly focus spiral with obscenely fast wind speeds. That is a tornado. Warm, moist air and cold, dry air colliding over a large swath of land with the ideal temperature and moisture conditions to fuel the cyclonic rotation forming within a supercell storm.
moist warm air currents hit cold air . The currents start rotating and gain power
There’s a reason people are more afraid of tornadoes than any other disaster, it’s like they have their own mind and they know what they’re doing. Instead of it just being a weather disaster it seems like it’s an evil entity that’s coming right towards you.
I think your confusing the power flashes for lightening. Often when tornadoes encounter transformers, they'll cause power flashes when they're destroyed. I've seen it in the distance from an EF2 tornado that hit Abilene, TX several years ago. It is a decent indicator of a powerful tornado on the ground. Tornadoes are caused by the meeting of warm moist air with cool dry air, which cause "super cells" or rotating storms to form. This rotation of air is what can lead to a lowering, where the wind vortex reaches the ground. They happen almost everywhere on earth, but are notably more powerful in parts of North America, South America, and Asia.