Tornadoes

Gustnadoes, Dust Devils, Fire whirls, Steam Devils, & Waterspouts

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Gustnadoes, Dust Devils, Fire whirls, Steam Devils, & Waterspouts  Most people are familiar with traditional tornadoes, the funnels spawned from supercell thunderstorms that pack the world’s highest wind speeds and can devastate homes or towns. But one type of swirl wasn’t enough for a planet as magnificent and varied as Earth. Vertical vortices come in […]

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The Fujita Scale

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The Fujita Scale The highest wind speeds on Earth come from tornadoes. Needless to say, things that cause the highest wind speeds can produce massive amounts of damage to human-created infrastructure and natural surroundings. Though we have made progress in tornado science over the past century, much about the mechanisms and materializations of the storms remains

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