Do tornadoes get named?

Question

What are the Characteristics of tornadoes?

Answer 1

Nope. They are classified by the Enhanced Fujita scale. (EF) It goes from EF1-EF5. 1 being a small tornado that causes minimal damage, 5 being a monstor tornado that destroys everything in its path.

Answer 2

no they do not have a name. and theres is to much info on tornadoes to name here. so go to this site.

http://www.tornadoproject.com/fscale/fsc...

alot of good information. that link will take you to the fujita scale, which measure tornado strength, but that whole site is pretty cool.

Answer 3

nah they dont... coz tons can happen at once ... and not very long.. so yea .. i guess youd be rushing around and be a very busy keeping up with naming all the tornadoes if they did have names... would be a cool as job though .. coming up with names lol

Answer 4

A tornado does not last long enough to name them.  That and there arejust too many of them.

A tornado is essentially a column of air where warm air from the ground starts mixing with cold air above the clouds.

Answer 5

Hurricanes get names but not tornadoes.