RESEARCH//TORNADOES

A tornado is a violent rotating column of air that reaches to the ground from a storm cloud in the shape of a condensation funnel created and maintained by strong inflowing winds. The spinning winds can attain extremely high speeds which provide great risk to property and life at the ground and in the air. When the humidity is high enough, the tornado funnel is made visible by the circulation of condensed water vapor in its outer sheath, but although the flow of air is inward and upward, the cloud within the low-pressure funnel actually extends downward from the cloud base.