Can a big shockwave disrupt a tornado and cease its formation?
In: Planetary Science
Not without doing more damage than the tornado would.
The thing that causes tornadoes is to have hot air underneath cold air, the hot air rises, the cold air sinks, and the air near the ground gets sucked towards the rising area. As this happens, the air keeps its angular momentum it started with, but because the radius is decreasing a lot, the angular velocity has to increase. A gentle rotation can become very violent.
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