TORNADO FORMATION
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:06 pm
Hope you can help!
For a long time now I have always thought that formation of a tornado can be attributed to the updraft rising within a confined space, rather like water going down a plug hole that generates rotation and the vortex. I have a problem with a horizontal vortex being moved to vertical because of the updraft. Indeed, here in Jersey we have had many waterspouts and funnels this year and each time the cumulus seems to grow at rapid rates just after the funnel fueling my theory.
What do you think?
For a long time now I have always thought that formation of a tornado can be attributed to the updraft rising within a confined space, rather like water going down a plug hole that generates rotation and the vortex. I have a problem with a horizontal vortex being moved to vertical because of the updraft. Indeed, here in Jersey we have had many waterspouts and funnels this year and each time the cumulus seems to grow at rapid rates just after the funnel fueling my theory.
What do you think?