Charlie Welsh on TWC explains how tornadoes are formed

[vengencefrom1979]

this is only a hypothesis but wouldnt planting trees in a grid pattern across the u.s. plains prevent wind shears from forming and hence tornadoes?

[evnejg]

@starseedwarrior i didn't know that every single tornado that has ever occurred is exactly as you put it....

[jstarks123]

@starseedwarrior ...you definitely know more about this stuff than I do, and what you say definitely makes sense. I do believe though that the horizontal spinning of the air (which is weak initially) occurs before clouds start to form. It might be possible that the updraft tilts the horizontal funnel to a vertical position as clouds begin to form. The supercell cloud then increases the speed and strength of the funnel, which then approaches the ground. Please tell me if I am 100% wrong LOL

[MetalAgainstMetallic]

@starseedwarrior Idiot.

[ILovestorms]

@starseedwarrior You're right that they don't know exactly how and why they form. I agree with you there but, the narration is trying to explain it in simple terms. Yes, there are a lot of complex factors. They may never know exactly how and why they form.

[ILovestorms]

@starseedwarrior He said ALMOST like a horizontal tornado, and NOT NEARLY as fast! He DID NOTsay that it IS a horizontal tornado!

[JustAbe1020]

lmao, there's a tornado warning in NJ and Im looking up how it forms. WOW. lol

[Runaholism]

Even though we're in the Bluray era, I still enjoy watching the VCR effects on the bottom of old videos...give good memories.

[sreddy117]

why is the music so jolly? were talking about potential death and destruction here

[MrThedudeman1]

whats the difference between a tornado and a hurricane? (some detail please) :)

[ILovestorms]

@MrThedudeman1 I'm afraid I can't answer that question with the kind of satisfactory detail you are looking for because there is a limit on the number of letters I can type when I comment and the answer to your question requires more detail than what I can post in a comment here on you tube. I would have to send to you a personal message to answer that. :)

[zunidoll2]

@MrThedudeman1 Basically, a hurricane is just a much larger version of a tornado. A tornado is extremely concentrated and because the winds are much tighter and concentrated the damage is more severe.

[CinemaDemocratica]

@MrThedudeman1 A tornado is a tightly-contained area of circulation due to wind sheer, in one small area of the gust front of a thunderstorm. A hurricane is a collection of whole storms which, while being fed with warm air over an ocean, begin to circulate as a result of the 'coriolis' effect, which causes straight line paths along the surface of a sphere, to be turned. When the storms spin together tightly enough, they feed the central circulation with enough energy to become a unified storm.

[216Clevelander]

@MrThedudeman1 Tornadoes form on land. Hurricanes form on water. Hurricanes can get REALLY big because they feed off of the water.

[patrick18365]

@MrThedudeman1 its the same, only it depends on the state where you live in. (people call it different)

[skateboy159]

@MrThedudeman1 tornado is a vortext comes from gusty wind and supercell thunderstorms that touches the ground and a hurricane is many thunderstorms that come together then the earths rotation causes the hurricane to rotate and forms on warm ocean waters

[drdoom554]

just a up and two down drafts

[seanmartin888]

canadian wind lol

[Landotter1]

I am the walrus, koo-koo-ka-choo

[Riff45]

@Landotter1 I know you are but I hear weasils.

[iiAngelic]

can tornadoes form on water?

[ILovestorms]

@iiAngelic Yes, but in those cases they are called waterspouts because they suck up water, rather than debris, but they are not as dangerous as their cousins over land.

[padude64]

I am administrator at Weatherbug and love it! 

[ILovestorms]

@padude64 You mean the computer application that you can download to your desktop?

[santa3fe]

@padude64 you mean the spyware that floods my desktop with adverts?



[6Seraph6]

I know tornadoes are so dangerous and all, but the music makes me feel so happy inside

[ILovestorms]

@lionsforlyons They probably didn't want to make it sound anymore complicated than they had to.

[soldierassasin]

man those tornadoes owe us alot of money

[sportzgirl124]

COOL IS THAT HOW ITS MADE

[ILovestorms]

In case anyone is interested or curious, the tornado shown from 0:01-0:13 is the Red Rock, Oklahoma tornado of April 26, 1991.

[padude64]

I am skywarn cooridinator

[ILovestorms]

@padude64 Good. What exactly do you do? Do you chase tornadoes?

[padude64]

Instability, surface features such as Low pressure systems with cold and warn fronts and a jet stream thet moves directly over head along with a high pressure system that circulates warm and humid air from the Gulf! What all of these do is provide different wind directions with height and can provide the horizontal spin which becomes vertical as updraft strengthens.

[padude64]

@eichampt1 It takes sunshine to destabilize the atmosphere for one , wind shear, winds at different directions with height, and a lifting mechanism such as a srong cold front along with the jet stream! Yeah! I know what I am talking about! How bout you?

[padude64]

So many factors have to come together for a tornado to form! Wind shear,sunshine, a lifting mechanism such as a cold front and a low pressure system.

[Teejsongs]

what is a sunami

[mythbusters28]

@Teejsongs its a big wave caused by an earthquake.

[boilersfan1]

thanks =) i needed this for my science project!! =D

[ILovestorms]

You are welcome.

[mac347bomb]

cool

[polki09polki]

I would also like to thank you for posting this, I'm studying for a final as well. :)

[SecuraOberonis]

Thanks for posting this, I'm studying for a meteorology final.

[ILovestorms]

You are welcome. :)

[epicdred]

@SecuraOberonis storms are the coolest thing about meteorology IMO. Especially mesocyclones and thunderstorms in general. This weather channel explaination is very simplistic, outadated and generic. what field do you plan on pursuing?

[soulbanisher34]

it is because of the sand

[ILovestorms]

Exactly how they form is still uncertain.

[KangaKucha]

they way this is expained seems a little farferchted imo.

[steven85buster]

i agree. but thats only cause its prolly a lil segment and they did have time to go in depth on how they form. you hav to kinda kno the mechanics of physics as well to. like the Vacum and Coriolis Effect and the nature of thunderstorms.  complicated shit. meteorology was original major

[KangaKucha]

your original major?

[steven85buster]

yea it was what i was workin to major in originally but then i ended changing it later. but i yea im a nerd when it comes to the whole weather thing lol

[KangaKucha]

right, well your not the only one, I one point I wanted to be a metroligiest, why do they call it that?, but history and political sci was more my calling.

[steven85buster]

thats wussup. history and political science huh? very nice. always a great field to get into. mos def. yea the word meteor's orginal definition means "a thing in the air". and the suffix -ologist- means "the study off" so thats where the word originated. yea i neva bot into the whole thing about the updraft tilting the windshear upright allowing it to spin on the ground. it jus doesnt make since

[steven85buster]

but..i do beilive the windshear has something to do with it. alot of scientist actually belive that the powerful updrafts associated with supercells is the cause. cause the air is rising up into the storm so fast that it begans to spit. much like water goin down a drain. when something is being drawn into to something at a high rate, and is a loose and something like water or air. it begins to rotate. jus by the law of physics

[steven85buster]

i think that windshear gets caught in that rotation and then become strengthend allowing it to last for so long. thats a more in depth explination. thats why tornadoes can for anywhere. no jus open feilds or rural areas.

[padude64]

I am a skywarn corridinator.

[cloudsvisitor77]

uhmm my undestanding from what they say is that tornadoes are starting from the ground....but why do we see the tornadoes coming down from the colouds to the ground??

I dont , im not an expert, anyway I just love tornadoes!!