How many tornadoes have hit Boone, NC?
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I lived there five years, and I don't remember a single one. I hear that higher elevation deters tornado formation. Once, a hurricane plowed through the whole state and did some damage to Boone and the surrounding area, so maybe that counts.
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There are probably a few explanations, However a whirlwind probably not a tornado possibly. could you add some detail where are you located?\n\nI beleive there was some tornado activity in your area today.
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Oklahoma antlers had the worst tornado in oklahoma history 69 people died at the result of it. that happen in 1945
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Go to metacafe, and put in the search space, a tornado is born.  It's an awesome video.
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Tornadoes are associated with severe thunderstorms. The strongest of severe thunderstorms, known as supercells, sometimes form mesocyclones. At the base of a mesocyclone can be a wall cloud. If the wall cloud starts to rotate, a funnel cloud and eventually a tornado can form and drop to the ground from the wall cloud.
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YES, there are, but your biggest concern would still be tornados!  Back in the late summer/early fall of 2000 there was one in Amarillo.  That was the first time I had ever "felt" one.  My brother and I were sitting on the couch and it felt like someone started shaking it!  It was very brief, but everyone in our apt building opened their doors and were asking "did you feel that??  was that a.... NO WAY!"  Since then, there have been smaller ones here and there that are getting a bit of media coverage, like the one in Dumas, but not that entense or frequent.  Now I'm no geologist, but Amarillo DOES sit on top of an underground mountain range, so that might contribute.  The Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, which every school kid is like REQUIRED to go to on at least 3 field trips in their lives, has an exhibit on it.  Pretty interesting.
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The tornado picks up tons of debris,and the howling winds\ncreate the most of the sound.\n            Old Fujita Scale:                New Fujita Scale:\nF-0       40-72 mph                           65-85 mph\nF-1      73-112 mph                          86-110 mph\nF-2     113-157 mph                       111-135 mph\nF-3     158-206 mph                       136-165 mph\nF-4      207-259 mph                      166-200 mph\nF-5      260-318 mph                      More than 200 mph
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We had a tornado blow through our house in 1987. We called it black friday. Our house was torn and I was just 10 years old at the time. I remember that my parents were both at work and my older siblings and I were playing outside. The air was clear and dead silent. No birds were chirping. All of a sudden there were hail stones as big as golf balls pouring down. We were smart, we went inside. I helped my older siblings gather up the younger ones ( there was 7 of us) and we called my dad. We were told to get to the basement and stay there. We did. Within 30 minutes of that call, the roof of our house was torn off. A day that I am sure none of us will forget. No one was hurt, but there was a lot of damage and debris everywhere.
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I live in West Tennessee and thankfully the tornadoes went past us this time. Still trying to recover from the ones that struck our neighborhood on April 2. Feel sorry for those people in middle tennessee.
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On May 9, 2003, just a few years after the tornado hit Moore and Oklahoma City, another hit Moore in almost the same path.  The next night, a tornado hit my hometown (Bethany, OK) and ran right by my house.  I was working for a college newspaper and decided to cover the damage that night.  When I left the house and got into my car, I turned towards the tornado and saw it rip through NW OKC.  Something I hope to never see again.
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In the Atlantic basin, at least two storms have killed more than 10,000 people. Hurricane Mitch during the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season caused severe flooding and mudslides in Honduras, killing about 18,000 people and changing the landscape enough that entirely new maps of the country were needed. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which made landfall at Galveston, Texas as an estimated Category 4 storm, killed 8,000 to 12,000 people, and remains the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. The deadliest Atlantic storm on record was the Great Hurricane of 1780, which killed about 22,000 people in the Antilles.\n\n \nThe relative sizes of Typhoon Tip, Tropical Cyclone Tracy, and the United States.The most intense storm on record was Typhoon Tip in the northwestern Pacific Ocean in 1979, which had a minimum pressure of only 870 mbar and maximum sustained wind speeds of 190 mph (305 km/h). It weakened before striking Japan. Tip does not hold the record for fastest sustained winds in a cyclone alone; Typhoon Keith in the Pacific, and Hurricane Camille and Hurricane Allen in the North Atlantic currently share this record as well [15], although recorded wind speeds that fast are suspect, since most monitoring equipment is likely to be destroyed by such conditions.\n\nCamille was the only storm to actually strike land while at that intensity, making it, with 190 mph (305 km/h) sustained winds and 210 mph (335 km/h) gusts, the strongest tropical cyclone of record to ever hit land. For comparison, these speeds are encountered at the center of a strong tornado, but Camille, like all tropical cyclones, was much larger and long-lived than any tornado.\n\nTyphoon Nancy in 1961 had recorded wind speeds of 213 mph (343 km/h), but recent research indicates that wind speeds from the 1940s to the 1960s were gauged too high, and this is no longer considered the fastest storm on record. [16] Similarly, a gust caused by Typhoon Paka over Guam was recorded at 236 mph (380 km/h); however, this reading had to be discarded, since the anemometer was damaged by the storm. Had it been confirmed, this would be the strongest non-tornadic wind ever recorded at the Earth's surface. (The current record is held by a non-hurricane wind registering 231 mph (372 km/h) at Mount Washington in New Hampshire.) [17]\n\nTip was also the largest cyclone on record, with a circulation 1,350 miles (2,170 km) wide. The average tropical cyclone is only 300 miles (480 km) wide. The smallest storm on record, 1974's Cyclone Tracy, which devastated Darwin, Australia, was roughly 30 miles (50 km) wide. [18]\n\nHurricane Iniki in 1992 was the most powerful storm to strike Hawaii in recorded history, hitting Kauai as a Category 4 hurricane, killing six and causing $3 billion in damage.\n\n \nThe first recorded South Atlantic hurricaneOn March 26, 2004, Cyclone Catarina became the first recorded South Atlantic hurricane. Previous South Atlantic cyclones in 1991 and 2004 reached only tropical storm strength. Hurricanes may have formed there prior to 1960 but were not observed until weather satellites began monitoring the Earth's oceans in that year.\n\nA tropical cyclone need not be particularly strong to cause memorable damage; Tropical Storm Allison in June 2001 had its name retired for killing 41 people and causing over $5 billion damage in East Texas, even though it never became a hurricane; the damage from Allison was mostly due to flooding, not winds or storm surge. Hurricane Jeanne in 2004 was only a tropical storm when it made a glancing blow on Haiti, but the flooding and mudslides it caused killed over 3,000 people.\n\nOn August 29 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi. The U.S. National Hurricane Center, in its August review of the tropical storm season stated that Katrina is probably the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Its death toll is above 1300, mainly from flooding and the aftermath. It is also es
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Tornado, lasts minutes.  Thunderstorms hours, Blizzard hours to a day or so.  Hurricane, day to several days.
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I've never heard it been used in weather but some most-known related slang terms to tornadoes are: twister ,whirlwind ,wedge , funnel , gustnado, landspout, willy-willy , or rope.\n\nI hope thats enough.
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1. Blizzard\n2. Flash flood\n3. Typhoon\n4. Funnel cloud\n5. Tornado\n6. Monsoon
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You can't tell by just stepping outside, unless you see a funnel cloud or something.  Tornadoes are usually created from cold fronts or occluded fronts.  You have very warm air ahead of the front, and very cool air behind it.  The difference in the air temperature pushes air up, creating an updraft.  Bottom line, tornadoes are caused by warm and cool air in the same area.  And you have to have very strong winds in the upper atmosphere.  70 to 80 mph.  That helps with the updraft.
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I'm not quite sure w/ whom you are comparing NC's thunder to. I can tell you that the thunder & lightning here are no different than anywhere else except for the fact that we have a lot of them.\n\nThe amount of strong storms is attributed to the fact that warm moist air masses move in from the Gulf & off the Atlantic coupled w/ cooler air from the NW. This combination, at times, can make for some really bad thunderstorms.
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Tornado paths range from 100 yards to one mile wide and are rarely more than 15 miles long. They can last from several seconds to more than an hour, however, most don't exceed 10 minutes. Most tornadoes travel from the southwest to northeast with an average speed of 30 mph, but the speed has been observed to range from almost no motion to 70 mph