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What causes tornadoes to be created?

What causes tornadoes to be created? Correct Answer Thunderstorms

  • Most tornadoes are formed from violent thunderstorms
  • The thunderstorm provides high instability and huge difference in pressures which are ideal conditions for formation of tornadoes
  • The spinning of a tornado is imparted by the updrafts and downdrafts of air that are formed in the thunderstorm

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Which of these statements are correct with reference to tornadoes?
1. Tornadoes are smaller and more intense than hurricanes.
2. Tornadoes are most abundant along the eastern coast of India.
3. The average tornado lasts for less than one hour.
4. Tornadoes are most common in the afternoons in the early summer.
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Which of the following causes tornadoes?
Attraction causes infatuation. Infatuation causes anger. Anger causes frustration. Therefore attraction causes frustration. Point out the correct statement from the following:
Which of the following among item A and item B are correct?
The right of private defence extends, subject to Section 99, to the causing of death of the assailant or aggressor in the following circumstances:
Item A: For defence of body:
1. Against an act which reasonably causes the apprehension of an assault to outrage the modesty
2. Against an act which reasonably causes the apprehension that the assailant will kill his children living in another city
3. Against an act which reasonably causes the apprehension that grievous hurt would otherwise be the consequence
Item B: For defence of property:
1. While the trespasser is engaged in house breaking during day time.
2. Against a thief who reasonably causes the defender to believe that he would lose his property
3. Against a person who commits mischief under such circumstances as may reasonably cause apprehension that grievous Hurt would be a consequence
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Meteorologists are 'ate odds' over the working of tornadoes .
.------ exerted by tornadoes that they have been known to life railroad locomitives off their tracks.
What are Tornadoes ?
Which of the following parameters is the basis of the 'Fujita Scale' for classifying tornadoes? a) Pressure Gradient b) Temperature Gradient c) Wind speed d) Related property damages