What causes a tornado to form and how to protect yourself from one [View all]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) — They are the most dangerous form of severe weather and also the most difficult to predict. Of course, we are talking about tornadoes, but how do they form?
Tornadoes develop from severe thunderstorms in warm, moist, unstable air along and ahead of cold fronts.
The first ingredient needed is strong winds at the surface, you then combine those surface winds with even stronger upper-level winds and the two airmasses then clash creating a rotating column of air.
As a thunderstorm grows stronger, it then creates strong updraft winds and the updraft winds take that rotating column of air upward forming what is known as a wall cloud. That rotating column of air continues to build downward.
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