Determine whether a tornado is more likely to form along a cold frony or a warm front?

Question

Determine whether a tornado is more likely to form along a cold frony or a warm front?

Answer 1

cold front. final answer

Answer 2

Is this a trick question?

"You need warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and cool, dry air from Canada. When these two air masses meet, they create instability in the atmosphere. A change in wind direction and an increase in wind speed with increasing height creates an invisible, horizontal spinning effect in the lower atmosphere. Rising air within the updraft tilts the rotating air from horizontal to vertical. An area of rotation, 2-6 miles wide, now extends through much of the storm. Most strong and violent tornadoes form within this area of strong rotation." - http://www.weatherwizkids.com/tornado.ht...

Thus you need a warm and cold front to produce a tornado... So idk what your trying to ask?

Answer 3

Both in a way. When you got a cold front to the north and a warm front to the west on a Low pressure and you got the Gulf Moisture from the south, there is a big rotation and add the jet stream and you got a tornado outbreak.

Answer 4

Cold front moves faster than a warm front and the slope of a cold front is also steeper than a warm front.Wind shift also will be more along a cold front  than a warm front.Hence warm air mass will be lifted up very vigourously and will be subjected to a whirling motion along a cold front.So,chances are more for the formation of tornados along a cold front.