Clockwise Tornadoes more dangerous?
Mar 01, 2010
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I was on youtube and i saw a video of a clockwise tornado and was wondering if these rare tornadoes are more dangerous or less dangerous?
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3 comments
Water on March 1, 2010 at 4:25 am
Most typically, an anticyclonic tornado, (the proper name for the clockwise rotation) are smaller, weaker and have a shorter life cycle than the cyclonic storms but have seen several that were still in the EF3 damage range so I consider all tornadoes dangerous but anticyclonic are often considered slightly less powerful. What is interesting is that anticyclonic tornadoes are often seen as part of families with cyclonic tornadoes in the same area and sometimes are seen very close (within a mile) of a cyclonic big brother. Google Boone County Iowa Tornadoes of June 13, 1976, and see if you can find the studies done on this family of tornadoes that included both cyclonic and anticyclonic at the same time. The largest cyclonic storm was a F5 the largest anticyclonic a F3.
тσÑиα∂σ fαиαтι¢ on March 1, 2010 at 4:25 am
Most often, tornadoes that rotate clockwise occur in the Southern Hemisphere. The reason is due to the rotation of Earth, or the Coriolis Effect. Sometimes, tornadoes do rotate counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere (and clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere), but it is very, very rare. The direction of rotation does not effect the intensity of the damage that occurs. counter-clockwise tornadoes and clockwise tornadoes are equally intense.
lane on March 20, 2010 at 1:44 pm
The Jarrell Texas tornado of May 27, 1997 was clockwise. It was a confirmed F5 tornado, well documented. It was also extremely slow moving killing almost all unfortunate enough to be in its 7.6 mile path