Many, but not all major tornadoes are wedges.

Tornadoes may be obscured completely by rain or dust.

Seventy five percent of the world's tornadoes occur in the US.

Tornadoes are also uncommon and usually strike once every 15 years.

These tornadoes are especially dangerous, as even experienced meteorologists might not see them.

One of our first launches was after the Dallas tornadoes this past April.

In the US, for example, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes trigger immediate Federal assistance.

San Antonio has experienced two F4 tornadoes, one in 1953 and another in 1973.

Of course, earthquakes and all the natural phenomena floods, tornadoes, etc. take their toll.

And this is the curve for the Dallas tornadoes in April, where we deployed software.

Big utilities reinsures to hedge against hurricanes or tornadoes or flooding, some sort of catastrophe.

About a year ago, he sold 600 wooden poles... said they were good against tornadoes.

Um, you know, tornadoes, rip up an entire town, like Joplin, Missouri, I think it was.

Another critic, an anonymous blogger who studies tornadoes for living, discusses misconceptions about Kepler 22b, concluding nevertheless

Earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, tsunamis and other natural disasters are beyond the capacity of any State to prevent.

Cloud Cult released a new album entitled Feel Good Ghosts (Tea Partying Through Tornadoes) on April 8, 2008.

And tornadoes in Tuscaloosa and Joplin, and then later Hurricane Irene, gave us an opportunity to look at that.

According to a local Indian legend, this mound was thought to protect the city from tornadoes if left undisturbed.

And tornadoes in Tuscaloosa and Joplin, and then later Hurricane Irene, gave us an opportunity to look at that.

As a result, in tornadoes the Coriolis force is negligible, and balance is between pressure and centrifugal forces (called cyclostrophic balance ).

So, tornadoes don't happen in Massachusetts, and I was cleverly standing in the front yard when one came over the hill.

The combination of heat and humidity in the summer brings very frequent thunderstorms, some of which occasionally produce tornadoes in the area.

Tornadon Tornadon is a slug like monster with fan blades at the end of its arms which it uses to create tornadoes.

Now, you see a very interesting pattern here, which is first of all, two things are vastly over estimated, namely tornadoes and fireworks.

Now, you see a very interesting pattern here, which is first of all, two things are vastly over estimated, namely tornadoes and fireworks.

During the summer, severe weather patterns (such as tornadoes and severe thunderstorms) are far less common than in southern Ontario, although they occasionally occur.

The tsunami in Asia was preceded by devastating hurricanes and tornadoes in the Caribbean and North America, and destructive phenomena in other parts of the world.

They dumped all of California's rain into the Mississippi Valley, which is the reason they're having floods and tornadoes and fierce storms and odd weather back east.

Characteristics Size and shape Most tornadoes take on the appearance of a narrow funnel, a few hundred yards (meters) across, with a small cloud of debris near the ground.

On August 20, 1904, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes damaged hundreds of downtown buildings, causing USD 1.78 million ( million present day) in damages to the city and ripping spans from the High Bridge.

And so three days later, driving very fast, I found myself stalking a single type of giant cloud called the super cell, capable of producing grapefruit size hail and spectacular tornadoes, although only two percent actually do.

It's very easy for all of us to bring to mind instances of news stories or newsreels where we've seen tornadoes devastating cities, or some poor schmuck who's blown his hands off with a firework on the Fourth of July.

And they attributed that little dog leg in the jet stream in Alaska to swinging storm systems out of Central Texas into Central Florida, where they deposited a couple of tornadoes in the middle of Orlando that were, like, really rare to see in that part of the country.