• Question: how are tornado's made.

    Asked by anon-190402 to Matt, Maia, Liam, Dionne on 15 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Dionne Turnbull

      Dionne Turnbull answered on 15 Nov 2018:

      It starts in the same way as a thunderstorm – warm moist air rising up, meeting colder dry air up above to form stormclouds. If there are strong winds up high, the clouds will start to swirl and rotate.
      The rotating air can get very concentrated and form a tight spinning column – if this touches the ground then a tornado is born! Some are only a few metres wide, others can be a couple of miles.

    • Photo: Liam Taylor

      Liam Taylor answered on 16 Nov 2018:

      Dionne has given a perfect answer, so I’ll just give you a little tornado fact! Very small tornadoes can appear in dry, sandy environments – and they are called dust devils! They’re usually harmless, but they look super cool.

    • Photo: Matt Bower

      Matt Bower answered on 18 Nov 2018:

      And you can get them in fires too. Scary or what?
      https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/110304-fire-tornado-picture-firenado-science-whirl-devil-budapest-hungary/

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