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

[@christeena2344]

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

[@Corn_Agentguy]

Lol

[@buhleblessing4313]

😂😂😂❤

[@mahmutucak2293]

like exactly dude i have finals tomorrow but here i am sitting being curious about anything but the exam

[@pritam_kumar8]

Lol, I'm watching this video at 02:58 am 😂

[@Cute74757]

Lolol

[@johncgibson4720]

Finally some animation that explains updraft well.

[@jukodebu]

ur a republican

[@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.

[@brianellis6880]

Wow I never knew that 😂

[@ozone8897]

Some tornadoes don't even have a funnel!

[@Schody_lol]

@@ozone8897 exactly.

[@The_Joshuan_Empire]

A more recent and strong example is the Andover, KS EF3, at peak intensity the funnel wasn't touching the ground.

[@ozone8897]

@@The_Joshuan_Empire Yes it was

[@Annamarie-sg6zz]

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

[@NoahDoane]

The green sky myth is from hail, not a tornado. Hail also does not indicate a tornado, just a strong thunderstorm.

[@Shadow-hw3kn]

freight*

[@hotpinkdisaster13]

​@@Shadow-hw3knlmao my dumbass didn't realize it was a typo and I was like "fright" train 👍🏼 sure sounds right, then read your comment and realized my brain went right over the typo.

[@jellybeanbear7017]

Its so easy to understand. Tha k you so much

[@hekmatabdulrahimzai9565]

Thanks so much so we know about the tornado

[@muhamadalon7106]

I need this for my English research report 😅

[@preppy.roblox7183]

This was great thanks I needed it :)

[@afiqite1921]

Learned something new!! Was seeing a short related to it and had to find what is the cost of it!! Commented on 2 Dec 2023, 5;48 AM

[@skepticfoxhound2425]

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

[@PavelBuravtsov]

What is the safety place for tornado though?

[@leakybrainz]

oh here i am yet again..when I was 6 I watched the fuck outta tornado videos, and now I'm here again lmao

[@mightythor-9286]

I’m sitting in a shelter while watching this.

[@yusupsupriatna8669]

Noaa can you upload your video again please i Miss your video

[@kntr1439]

1:08 水平渦管が鉛直に立ち上がる時、回転方向の異なる渦の対が出来るけれども、片方が消失するのはなぜですか？ When a horizontal vortex tube rises vertically, a pair of vortices with different directions of rotation is formed, but why does one disappear?

[@PavelBuravtsov]

Bernoulli's principle, difference in the air pressure in between. I think...

[@muhammadwafiq4223]

I Love the field

[@user-ux2fn3hv1m]

I love your video ❤❤

[@muhamadalon7106]

And where'd you get that speech from please😊

[@hekmatabdulrahimzai9565]

Thanks

[@amyisasnorlax]

hey are you the one that made the weather radio?

[@samueleyumercado4926]

o my word so dangerous

[@jasonweatherford5710]

Take away the rotating horizontal tubes & your pretty accurate

[@PavelBuravtsov]

is that inaccurate? Why?

[@davidbahena7252]

Anyone else here after the montebello tornados?

[@mysterylife732]

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

[@GlorytoGod-wl8vb]

Can seed clouds cause this as well.

[@Outdoor-Avenger]

Is the supercell rotating at the same speed as a tornado

[@norgenobina1080]

supercell heading at school and forms a tornado💀

[@ninajuegaenespanol6250]

How did you know this my mum told me a few seconds ago that is that is a tornado gets you you go you go up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and then when you get the tornado throws you onto the ground I really cried of laughter when my mum told me this I cannot even understand that but I was laughing so much

[@anime_weeb2073]

Why did I feel like I was at school 😂😂

[@malweij]

Because i must whatch this f*King Video in the F@cking SCHOOL

[@cooldude885]

It deadass felt like a video they show you at school ☠️

[@ngale8832]

@@malweij iqj

[@AyaanFritz-Whatif]

I will Fucking also watch this fucking video in my fucking SCH00L!!

[@bmla88]

Why did you watch?

[@lunamayayt]

Omg there was a tornado in texas Houston last year i was sleeping 0:28

[@Annamarie-sg6zz]

I love tornadoes but I live in a state were you don’t get that many tornadoes like non 🌪️ In Utah Murray😢😢😢

[@robertemiantor9935]

😊😅😮😅😮😮😅How does a tornado form but we need a exclamation how to survive and how to survive tornado

[@TheEricapiano]

this was great, thanks!

[@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 ?

[@kaubin31]

In essence your mostly correct. Higher updraft speeds are caused by warm moist air at the surface beneath much cooler air aloft. The colder and drier the air the faster warm air will rise. A super cell I'd like a mini low pressure system with the inflow being the warm front, the rear flank downdraft being the cold front. And where they meet and occlude is usually the location of the meso and subsequent tornado. Directional shear, steep lapse rates, and warm and moist air all play a part.

[@cryptic7965]

​@Kelly Aubin I have no idea what you just said but sounds right lol

[@user-rq3dq2ev6q]

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@PoorYOUTUBEER]

Nice 👌👌

[@WabuhWabuh]

so when convection happens tornado happens?

[@user-if6ub7oj6v]

a tornado rotates cooling the air (this is a source of energy)

[@glauj31]

Who else is watching this at 2am? Lol

[@rashidmeow31908]

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

[@user-vi8td3nf5n]

It feels like I'm in geography class something like that right?

[@cmoonshinez]

i believe when a cumulonimbus cloud meets the airstream the potential for tornadoes is much higher..🌪

[@cmoonshinez]

airstream is 5-9 miles above the ground.. 26400-47520 feet.. and cumulonimbus clouds reach heights of 60,000 feet..

[@cmoonshinez]

hurricanes occur in a similar way.. it requires a very large body of water tho..

[@robertvanroekel1558]

Robert

[@robertvanroekel1558]

511

[@demapples6580]

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

[@BateMasterJeff9887]

……okay???

[@demapples6580]

@@BateMasterJeff9887 ? It had nice music that I liked, and if it didnt credit it then I wouldnt have been able to find out what it was.

[@rferguson3]

​@@demapples6580I didn't even pay attention to it. What/who was it?

[@i_2670]

A mesocyclone is a meso-gamma mesoscale (or storm scale) region of rotation (vortex), typically around 2 to 6 mi (3.2 to 9.7 km) in diameter, most often noticed on radar within thunderstorms. In the northern hemisphere it is usually located in the right rear flank (back edge with respect to direction of movement) of a supercell, or often on the eastern, or leading, flank of a high-precipitationvariety of supercell. The area overlaid by a mesocyclone’s circulation may be several miles (km) wide, but substantially larger than any tornado that may develop within it, and it is within mesocyclones where intense tornadoes form.[ Mesocyclones are medium-scale vortices of rising and converging air that circulate around a vertical axis. They are most often associated with a localregion of low-pressure. Their rotation is (usually) in the same direction as low pressure systems in a given hemisphere: counter-clockwise in the northern, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere, with the only occasional exceptions being the smallest-scale mesocyclones. Meso Anticyclones that rotate in an opposite direction may accompany mesocyclones within a supercell but these tend to be weaker and often more transient than mesocyclones, which can be sustained for tens of minutes or hours, and also cyclically form in succession within a supercell. A mesocyclone is usually a phenomenon that is difficult to observe directly. Visual evidence of rotation - such as curved inflow bands - may suggest the presence of a mesocyclone, but the cylinder of circulating air is often too large to be recognized when viewed from the ground, or may not carry clouds distinct enough from the surrounding calmer air to make the circulating air flow obvious. Mesocyclones are best detected on Doppler weather radar as a rotation signature which meets specific criteria for magnitude, vertical depth, and duration. On U.S. NEXRAD radar displays, they are typically highlighted by a yellow solid circle on the Doppler velocity display; other weather services may have other conventions. Within thunderstormsEdit They are of greatest concern when contained within severe thunderstorms, since mesocyclones often occur together with updrafts in supercells, within which tornadoes may form near the interchange with a downdraft. Mesocyclones are localized, approximately 2 km (1.2 mi) to 10 km (6.2 mi) in diameter within strong thunderstorms.[2] Thunderstorms containing persistent mesocyclones are supercell thunderstorms (although some supercells and even tornadic storms do not produce lightning or thunder and thus are not technically thunderstorms). Doppler weather radar is used to identify mesocyclones. Amesovortex is a similar but typically smaller and weaker rotational feature associated with squall lines.

[@ilovekitkats3299]

Bro wrote an entire essay and got single digit likes

[@leakybrainz]

nerd‼️

[@Annamarie-sg6zz]

I think it is funny how he wrote an entire essay

[@stratussol2475]

Copied and pasted

[@sheilarichmond8825]

tornado. it is scary. 😢

[@joee95]

Horizontal tube of air to form . different wind direction . Updraft from warm air can cause horizontal tube of air to go vertical , whole storm starts rotating creating a supercell. funnel cloud reaches ground creating a tornado

[@kaubin31]

First of all their explanation is bs. Their little diagram shows winds from the south at the surface and from the west at 5000 ft causing the air to tumble horizontally. Directional shear is winds veering with height. Which means 850 mb winds should ideally be easterly, and charging more southerly at 700 mb, south westerly at 500 mb and west to northwest at 300 mb. That's what cause rotating supercells, fast moving air in the mid to upper levels increases the speed of the updraft along with steep lapse rates aloft, or cooling of the air as you go up. Once the storm has begun to rotate the rear flank downdraft interacts with the updraft causing it to accelerate and tighten, explained by vorticity stretching. The cold air also causes the condensation funnel to form. The whole meteorological community is flat out wrong if they accept horizontal vortex leads to tornadoes. I've been chasing 20 plus years and have never witnessed a horizontal vortex in the clouds near an updraft.

[@MisterE1487]

​@@kaubin31Thank you. Finally someone else gets it.

[@dwizzle810]

1:45 That's a stong built house 🤣

[@pauldavis5665]

That was just an animation, not actual video footage. If it was real and the tornado got that close, that house would either be gone or would at least have its roof ripped off.

[@dwizzle810]

@@pauldavis5665 I was joking, I doubt anyone would believe that was actual footage.

[@pauldavis5665]

@@dwizzle810 Oh, I thought that you thought it was actual video footage.

[@ratmemer]

what causes tornado? a person using my name

[@christianfiguroa7147]

Stay Safe God Bless

[@charleswilsonv3538]

🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌊🌊🌊🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️I love the video

[@qiuhonghuang1787]

But it's also noted that tornadoes are weak and they only last for 2 or 3 minutes

[@DX-ny8ob]

It's strange how tornadoes hit North America more than any place on the globe..............why??

[@thefeeblesheep]

Geography

[@napoleonbonerfart278]

The Rockies.

[@oilfloatsonwater7574]

Because warm wet air and cool dry air mostly comes there

[@TrueProphetRecords]

Harp

[@Dikin-Baus]

cool

[@cameronworam1908]

Cool

[@sozanzayoun922]

Important thanks

[@S1lh0u3tt3e]

A word windshear kinda reminds the name for heathers razorwhip from httyd

[@sng_black-out5829]

I wish I was inside or felt how it was to be near a tornado

[@themorenajay]

do you really?

[@sng_black-out5829]

@@themorenajay yes

[@hectorcarbajal5350]

Then come to texas

[@teresamyers6992]

Just air hitting your face, try skydiving, im sure the feeling will be similar

[@ashereftekhar4701]

Then come to nebraska

[@Raven_846]

Tornadoes go updrafts and a phone cloud they high winds they pick up cars and stuff like that

[@KristianKitanovski]

Точно

[@joebrien59]

Willam Cohen on Weather Warfare Dig Deep

[@christoschaidas8609]

I live in usa

[@mannatkaur5142]

Thanks that helped me a lot now I am the smartest in mu class about this topic

[@esconboy9192]

nice

[@catsantos353]

Weren’t the astronauts onboard the fatal last flight of the Columbia space shuttle studying wind shear? 🌬💘 rip yall

[@muhamadalon7106]

Excuse me, what's your name

[@LSCBTHEWAVY]

Man it sounds like a super cell storm clouds WITH ALL THE SMOKE

[@adivyasingh767]

I thinked like i am in class

[@rosalyndesposado2991]

Tornado warning

[@rickishere2game]

Cool video. Now tell us there is a possible solution for preventing them.

[@abbyanderson8012]

you can’t prevent weather 💀

[@SlickEvader]

Yeah build a city

[@GregGibson_music]

Let's ban tornadoes!

[@br117p7]

No way 💀

[@oliverandersen1661]

anyone else doing this for a school project

[@jaromirjandejsek1960]

Ok

[@carinaaurelia2367]

Tornado di atas

[@stevensims3342]

Thanks NOAA!

[@Longestcomment1981]

i was spining my mouse like a tornado

[@moodby]

Thanks, meteorologists!

[@nafishamallick704]

🤔😮😯😲 Tornado

[@uglyfacehomergoodfunnylaug9559]

If I had nothing to say we tell some great news other people had been watching the first video of science "why does the wind blow?" But suddenly a second video "what causes a tornado?" Suddenly we captured it's the same logic videos so it was funny suddenly as a joke or something not right...

[@hekmatabdulrahimzai9565]

This is good a

[@MaverickRocketleague-kn2dv]

😊

[@byrongreen2167]

Sorry, but you still didn’t explain the genesis of the development itself….

[@RSAgility]

Did you even watch the video? Wind Shear? Tubes? You don't remember any of that?

[@maninder4210]

🎉

[@Muiri144]

ever think maybe trees help stop these tornadoes from forming??

[@manjuan9632]

Nope, if anything they help, trees release moisture, moisture increases updraft strength and forms thunderstorms.

[@Muiri144]

@@manjuan9632 okay then why are they so commonly formed in big fields with no trees? like farmland

[@manjuan9632]

@@Muiri144 they form everywhere, they are just alot more visible in feilds

[@br117p7]

Bro 💀

[@richardanthonygilbey]

That’s really close for humans Hot air at ground level is the hottest dense air it rises like an escalator. It would carry on but the air mass in front is too much and turns it around , high pressure at the top of the escalator grabs it again , the circle is now complete. It starts spinnning in a circle . The hot air condensed and fuses and becomes visible ( storm cell) The cold wet air now spins faster turning to ice . The ice particles collide causing static electricity. (supercell) If you add electric to hot it gets hotter , if you add electric to cold it gets colder , Heavyweight ice is now spinning high up . Due to molecular connectivity it spins the air mass below , but air is fiscous, so there is a delayed reaction so the storm is spinning Miles ahead of the lower air , when the lower air starts to spin it has alot of catching up to do, making it spin much more violently than high up. The tornado takes the air from ground level and uses it to disperse the kinetic energy by attaching protons , this switches off the air conditioning and the ice , eventually the storm ends and there’s no superheated air left at ground level . This stops the earth from dying of heat exposure, of course it also wipes out maybury avenue

[@Nottigang14750]

Shabooya Sha sha

[@LukeCabigon]

Tornado warning Killed people

[@j-walking7080]

How so?

[@N3isfree]

😬

[@antdx316]

But what do you do if the tornado is headed to you in a matter of seconds with no means to "bomb shelter"? It's probably better to not know imo.

[@hananhussein5627]

You would ethier go to a basement if you have one or if you don't have a basement then good luck xd.

[@antdx316]

@@hananhussein5627 but if there is a flood then having a basement is bad

[@hananhussein5627]

@@antdx316 It depends

[@davich_]

@@antdx316 Only if you are in a flood-prone area near creeks or rivers mostly. Otherwise, find a basement, ditch, ravine, bomb shelter, some low-lying area, these types of places are remarkably common for exactly this reason. Even the most far-fetched scenario in the movie Twister, hanging suspended in a water well would actually work.

[@antdx316]

@@davich_ yeah but the debris could kill

[@dianestapleton4677]

🌪️🌨️🌧️🌧️🌧️

[@Cro284]

Put on dirtbike jumping on x

[@purv8594]

It's worst my son is died for this

[@ambikaneupane9994]

😂😂You are funny

[@anitaperales1121]

🌪🌪🌪

[@Imhere67891]

I kinda is school😂

[@user-bm2cb6oc4u]

Yea 🤣🤣🤣

[@i_like_shower_thoughts]

I was really scared of tornadoes actually I am really scared of tornadoes because they can spin me around even breaking my spine

[@napoleonbonerfart278]

Yep

[@michaellovely6601]

Have you considered the idea of seeing a therapist for your fear? It seems to me that you have a condition called Lilapsophobia. By definition; Lilapsophobia is a fear of tornadoes. I learned of Lilapsophobia through the story of a woman named Karin Herrmann. Karin lives in Miami, Oklahoma and developed Lilapsophobia as a result of the EF5 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri on May 22nd, 2011. After close to a year of therapy; Karin conquered her fear and established a page on Facebook to help people who suffer from Lilapsophobia know that they are not alone and with the combination of therapy and having a support system they can conquer their fear and learn how to not be afraid of the weather.

[@packerman7410]

They wont literally twist your body but they will kill you in different ways, either from falling or being impaled/struck with debris

[@FUNwithHKM8]

😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅

[@maryy179]

Uh we had this type of storm but no tornado

[@francianemacabu]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@liamfontana4974]

To tornado warning ⚠️🌪⛈🌩🌩☁️🌧?!

[@santiagososa8855]

De

[@benjackhenry]

all of this sounds like a corporate ethics training

[@smritioreya5757]

The was to house it's the to my house?