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Can I have a detailed description of the infrastructure of a tornado?

by Guest58277  |  earlier

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I mean, horisontal speed oft the epicenter, liftup force of it, even layers of velocity, etc.

I work on a tornado touchdown repeller, that saves billions of $$ from inevitable damage.

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  1. interesting question, but i think, it is not easy to answer it. since you need to be as closer as possible to the tornadoes to know detailed description of the infrastructure of tornado.

    well.. this might not detailed enough.. but i hope.. its useful.

    this is form Joshua Wurman, University of Oklahoma in Norman.

    with a new mobile radar system, he and his colleagues managed to  captured the most detailed portrait of a twister yet.  see where the maximum winds are and how strong they are. These things have never been measured before because nobody's been able to get up close to a tornado with a radar before.

    on June 2, 1995, Wurman and his colleagues succeeded in bringing their Doppler radar to within 1.8 miles of a tornado near Dimmitt, Texas, that destroyed a home and sent nearby trucks flying. Unlike the characters in Twister, the VORTEX crew kept a safe distance from the storm. Doppler weather radars-kin to the radar guns used by police-measure wind speeds by bouncing microwaves off rain, dust, and other debris in the air. Objects moving toward or away from the radar shift the frequency of the microwaves, just as a train's whistle sounds higher as it approaches an observer.

    By scanning the Dimmitt storm at close range, Wurman and his colleagues determined that the maximum winds exceeded 156 miles per hour and that they occurred close to the ground, within 650 feet of the surface, as predicted by theory. In the past, scientists have made only rough measurements of where the peak speeds occur in a tornado. Such information is essential to designing structures that can better withstand tornadoes, says Golden. The radar images also show something unexpected-a downdraft plunging through the center of the tornado at more than 55 miles per hour.

    anyway.. i found this site could be useful for you:

    http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-19397/T...

    sorry if it doesn't help you much

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