Tornadoes 101 | National Geographic 

These violent storms occur around the world, but the United States is a major hotspot with about a thousand tornadoes every year. To learn more, you can read on here: on.natgeo.com/2LfvcJs

Fun Fact: If the tornado looks like it’s not moving, that means it’s heading to your direction.

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Tornado is called 竜巻(Tatsu-maki) in Japanese. 竜 means dragon, 巻 means curl

I'm so confused. I've literally NEVER heard of a tornado in the UK in my whole 38 years. Im not saying they done happen as they obviously do its just strange they never make reports on it.

I lived in tornado alley (Tulsa) for 12 years and we always kept the radio and TV tuned to the weather reports when supercells were tracking toward town. I never had to hit the basement, but we had a few close calls - pretty scary!

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I have been absolutely fascinated by tornadoes, supercells, storms and weather in general ever since i was a kid. Shows like storm chasers and the likes got me absolutely pulled in and grew my interesst in weather events. You have to have the utmost respect for these storms. And to the people researching, monitoring and preventing these events.

Pure destructive force. Absolutely terrifying. But great explanation here. Was very informative. Also reminds me of the movie "Twister" back in the 90s.

Excuse me?? I've lived in England for 27 years and I had NO idea we could even GET tornados here. I was literally just thinking how lucky I was to live in a country that can never get tornadoes! Now I am SHOOK

Anyone here remember the Linwood tornado that went from Kansas to Ohio? That one came through my county. It was 400 feet from my house. That was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever experienced.

The fact that these type of weather occurrences shows me that nature or the universe itself runs the show. We just live here

To get an idea of how powerful the winds of a typical tornado are, consider the fact that some have been known to drive small objects like forks or records deep into tree trunks or telephone poles. Even tornadoes with low Enhanced Fujita Scale ratings have winds that are sufficiently fast and pressure that is sufficiently low to pull the roofs clean off houses.

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I really love national geographic 101 videos. So informative with beautiful visuals.

i love her voice

I love the 101 series. Short, but full of informations

This 101 series is extremely awesome. This video let me know how tornado be classified and how it form. But the most important is that you let people know there are many nameless heroes devote their everything to protecting people in high-risk areas. I certainly believe that their endeavor will harvest multiple sweet results.

The EF5 Tornado in 1999 Was the bridge creek Moore RIP PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THAT TORNADO

My name is Setya Faturahman from SMK Bakti Nusa. Tornado are so frightening that they can devour whatever is in front of them, if we see a tornado it is better to take refuge in a safe place like a basement to save yourself.

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I have never once heard on the news about any catastrophic tornadoes in the UK!! Didn’t know we had them in the first place

Dude i have an assignment about tornados and this vid gave me an A+ thank you National Geographic

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If you live in Oklahoma you have to deal with tornadoes like twice a year. Honestly im use to seeing green skys in the fall in spring, its like "oh here we go again".

5 mins of educational clips from NG is more informative than 30 mins of citizenry clips that I could hear is OMG OMG OMG.

The UK has the most annual tornadoes per land area per year, 0.14 per 1000 km2 (although these tornadoes are generally weak), and other European countries have a similar number of tornadoes per area. One notable tornado of recent years was the tornado that struck Birmingham, United Kingdom, in July 2005.

These videos are so helpful to build the knowledge of people about the natural disaster that mother nature creates. These really useful for school projects like mine!

I learned about the principles of the formation of tornadoes in Earth science class, so I understand more about the video. I have to study more about why there are no tornadoes in our country. It is amazing that atmospheric phenomena consist of scientific principles, not coincidences.

I absolutely love that tornadogenesis is still a mystery.

Any Pecos Hank fans here? If I remember correctly I think National Geographic was going to use his footage to some of their documentaries. Hank is amazing!

OMG I’ve been through one IT SOUNDS LIKE A FRAIT TRAIN COMING THROUGH YOUR HOUSE!!!!!😱

I live in the UK and the last time I saw a tornado here was like NEVER!

4:25 The whole neighborhood was destroyed but at least the pizza survived (bottom left)

Humans : *ughhh ... there is a tornado!* Tornado : *wirling and singing ‘time to dance ‘*

Feeling cold then warm air is soo creepy happened to me during a bad storm in Oklahoma

Love this 101 series concise and informative

Anyone else here for their 3yo?

I was born and raised in KS. Just went through my first EF4 this past May. Scary but amazing all at once.

this is why I actually am thankful for quarantine before it whenever i went outside I kept looking past my shoulder for a tornado like if ur even more scared of them now

Loved this one. My son is going to watch this over and over.

The vast majority of the tornadoes that occur in the UK are most often non-supercellular in origin, manifesting as waterspouts and/or landspouts and rarely beyond F1 strength. Conditions that would be necessary for the formation of supercells in the UK rarely come together to produce the colossal and highly sophisticated supertall rotating anvils of devastation that are supercell thunderstorms. That said, they have happened. The Birmingham Tornado of 2005 was undoubtedly supercellular in origin and produced one of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded in the UK and in May 2012, three supercells formed in Central and Northern England (notably in Sleaford, Lincolnshire) and one of them produced a tornado. This is probably why we don't usually get the massive wedge-like F4's and F5's or even F3's that go on the rampage in Tornado Alley in the American Midwest and South (Texas)

Tornadoes are most occur in tornado alley, a stretch of land in mid-western in United States. They basically form when dry cool air from Canada and hot moist air from Mexico that releases heat clash together to create a vicious storm which eventually becomes a tornado. The wind of a tornado can be nearly up to 500 km/h.

Recently EF1 tornado caused lots of destruction and took lives of more than 30 local people in Nepal.

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The visual depiction of the formation of a tornado, along with real ones, it was scary at the same time informative. Super video. Loved it. BTW, if you want an episode on floods, welcome to Kerala, India 🙂. For last two years, the monsoon season is replaced with flood season. You can have a live telecast of raining and consequent flood within an hour.

I love this different Types of tornadoes Through Different speeds of Air Epic🔮🌪

I appreciate the education on tornados thanks :)

That's the power and the beauty of nature! How arrogant, therefore senseless, is man's behaviour towards what he should respect!

A great video! I’ve never experienced a tornado, but I live in the south. Luckily it’s very hilly here

Imagine tornadoes on the Great Plains before humans, when there were tens of thousands of bison to be airborne. A black cloud indeed.

i am to high to comprehend this

Thanks for your amazing video. I'm waiting for your interesting videos. Thanks in Advanced.

Thank God for professional storm chasers

I have always been interested in tornadoes. this video is really great for information I have watched it so many times. They really are very interesting!

I’ll just add that to my list of complex misunderstood reasons why I’d leave America and never return.

Tornadoes look funny and scary at the same time. It's like a cloud slurping out of the ground

I haven't seen a tornado yet. But I can feel the strength of the tornadoes occuring those areas. I hope to see it in real. I have learned about typhoon's growing so it was more interesting while I was watching this video because I can understand it.

In El Reno for our state trap shooting tournament, you could definitely tell that there was terrible damage there. Even after 20 years there were absolutely no trees, and if there were any they were bent over naturally from the constant wind. It was breathtaking because of how open it was. Now for the fun part. Since it is so windy out there because there are no trees to slow the wind, The birds would fly super irratically. Worst spot to hold a trap shooting tournament 😂

Thanks for teaching me :)

This segment breaks it all down. Thanks for the video!!!

Here after the big tornado 🌪 that happened in Kentucky and other Midwest & southern states.

We live in MS. We went through 2 Tornados in one week. The destruction and power of these things are mind-boggling.

Tornadoes terrify me, and I wish I lived somewhere that they don't form.

Wow. Incrível. Obrigado

I am watching this in a middle of a storm! ...haha!

You guys are the best and very educational, the video about tornadoes was very awesome and fascinating.

My country never had tornadoes it’s very very rare in the Philippines 🇵🇭

Even tho I hate tornadoes this makes me loook in to tornado subject

tornado's are pretty crazy they come and go so quickly they do so much damage then they are gone in the blink of an eye I was fortunate enough to capture a tornado in my swimming pool as it tore my house apart and put it up on my channel its pretty wild how even a small tornado can have such a large impact

What would happen if you can attract a tornado, and use some kind of huge vortex ring maker. And shoot it upward ? You'd probably need huge kinetic energy like a small bomb to ignite the ring

this happens whenever I try to play badminton in open grounds

I live in Oklahoma, and I absolutely hate tornados. During spring and summer I get major anxiety.

The biggest tornado ever was the El Reno Tornado, also in Oklahoma.

Nothing can protect you except a basement!

I was waiting for this video for so longgggg , tyyyy . Btw love ur videos

We've had tornadoes every Christmas for the past 8 years.

I just have discovered that it is considerably better to watch NG in original speech than translated one. I am from Uzbekistan. We speak in uzbek and russian. But this kind of witty words disappear during translation. Thank you for fascinating videos

useful video, as always Nat Geo 🙌

the uk hasnt had a tornado in 196 years.. we have tornadoes that are around 1 - 4 inches long and 6 cm thick

thank you NG........ giving us so much knowledge

I love this channel because it is so informative and i love that

Make sure you house has hurricane brackets on the roof. This is a big factor in survival of a big tornado and is $5 a rafter to add. It keeps your roof from being pulled off as easily. A big cause of death is the walls falling in on people because the roof pulls off and then the structure falls. This helps keep it on in high winds.

Wow cool

The narrator has mesmerizing voice

Addicted to these 101 series

Made so much sense compared to other videos

I really like the 101 series about the solar system it helps me Learning a lot about the solar system

who here has online classes because of covid-19 and they were assigned to watch this

I've seen many but not as strong even stood watching as the wind swirls leaves around, Thank you for explaining.

Wow... that is so dangerous I hope those people lived its so sad, it damages people's houses, and loses lots of people's life. It's so sad.. Remember guys when a tornado hits go find safety really quick! You can hide in a basement and celler, there's some chance that the tornado could destroy the celler it depends how strong it is, be safe and tornado season is coming soon to Florida stay safe guys!

I had a brain storm whilst watching

Wouldn't they have to test this to know it lol

Out of all the storms tornadoes fascinate me the most.

I've never been in any major tornado but dang, I feel bad for the people that got affected.

I have seen once an F-2 tornado in Houston back in 1992, they are scary.

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I have always been fscinated with tornadoes. People used to think that I was insane but I loved thunderstorms, tornadoes and blizzards. Shame that I didn't become a meteorologist.😮 My love of aviation won out.

Really useful video, had a lot of info was really helpfull for the school project ! Thank you national geography !!😃