{"id":2452,"date":"2014-09-12T15:32:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2019-03-22T17:57:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:57:56","slug":"tornado-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/basic-meteorology\/tornado-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iAlert.com\/services\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2463\" src=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tornado.png\" alt=\"Tornado Facts Image\" width=\"161\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a>Although tornadoes occur in many parts of the world, they are found most frequently in the United States. In an average year, 1,2000 tornadoes cause 60-65 fatalities and 1,500 injuries nationwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"How Tornadoes Form\" href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/basic-meteorology\/how-tornadoes-form\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn How Tornadoes Form<\/a> | <a title=\"Criteria for a tornado warning\" href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-glossary\/criteria-for-a-tornado-warning\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Criteria for a Tornado Warning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tornado Facts<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending from a cumuliform cloud, such as a thunderstorm, to the ground<\/li>\n<li>Tornadoes may appear nearly transparent until dust and debris are piked up or a cloud forms within the funnel.? The average tornado moves from southwest to northeast, but tornadoes can move in any direction and can suddenly change their direction of motion<\/li>\n<li>The average forward speed of a tornado is 30 mph but may vary from nearly stationary to 70 mph<\/li>\n<li>The strongest tornadoes have rotating winds of more than 200 mph<\/li>\n<li>Tornadoes can accompany tropical storms and hurricanes as they move onto land<\/li>\n<li>Waterspouts are tornadoes that form over warm water.? Water spouts can move onshore and cause damage to coastal areas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Be Ready Year Round<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tornadoes can occur at any time of day, any day of the year<\/li>\n<li>Have a plan of action before severe weather threatens.? You need to respond quickly when a warning is issued or a tornado is spotted<\/li>\n<li>When conditions are warm, huid, and windy, or skies are threatening, monitor for severe weather watches and warnings at <a title=\"Severe Weather and Emergency Alert Monitoring and Notificaiton Services\" href=\"http:\/\/iAlert.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">iAlert.com <\/a>or <a title=\"Severe Weather and Emergency Alert Monitoring and Notificaiton Services\" href=\"http:\/\/iAlert.com\/services\" rel=\"nofollow\">signup to have severe weather alerts sent to your email or phone by text message<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although tornadoes occur in many parts of the world, they are found most frequently in the United States. In an average year, 1,2000 tornadoes cause 60-65 fatalities and 1,500 injuries nationwide. Learn How Tornadoes Form | Criteria for a Tornado Warning &nbsp; Tornado &hellip;<span class=\"more\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/basic-meteorology\/tornado-facts\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[533,119,475,457,120,100,534],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basic-meteorology","tag-facts","tag-severe-weather","tag-severe-weather-alerts","tag-severe-weather-threat","tag-tornado","tag-tornado-warning","tag-weather-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}