Can a big shockwave disrupt a tornado and cease its formation?
In: Planetary Science
Even if we could do something tornados happen suddenly and we don’t know where they will form. Yes we know certain weather conditions can form tornados but a lot of times they don’t. And if it does, until it is about to happen we won’t know. And these happen over a wide area making up more than half the country. You would have to have massive amounts of stuff pre positioned in areas that might get a tornado and you would have to be able to deploy it almost immediately since you won’t get a lot of advanced warning of an actual tornado. Worse you would have to be ready on call for so many storms that could, but don’t, make tornados. Imagine how much we spend on the military, you would need about that much to do such a thing. We are talking hundreds of billions of dollars every year just to prevent maybe 100 million in damage. The worst year for tornado costs reached 700 million but it is usually under 100 million. If were that serious about mitigating the effects of tornados you could instead take a fraction of that money and build everyone a storm shelter in these areas and pay to rebuild their houses if they are hit which would be far cheaper than trying to stop them. Practically speaking doing the latter would be far cheaper and easier than the former.
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