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Show Tornadoes Causes By? Do inverted air masses cause tornadoes? Are the causes of tornadoes all known and understood? MANY weather experts agree that inverted air masses make for tornado conditions. This is logical from the standpoint stand-point that heavier air falling through to lower altitudes is likely to set off all sorts of disturbances dis-turbances and whirls. The varied causes of tornadoes torna-does are not fully understood under-stood even with all the modern mod-ern scientific knowledge at our disposal. The theory that inverted in-verted air masses produce tornadoes tor-nadoes is one of several. This theory holds that heavier air, pouring down, gets turned, or twisted, so to speak, in a whirlwind whirl-wind manner, and creates one or more tornadoes. THE INVERSION and the rushing and falling air masses might cover an area of a hun-; dred miles or more; while the ' small tornadoes created might be separated by many miles, each less than a mile in diameter dia-meter and some never touching the surface of the earth. One small tornado, either bouncing off the surface or staying above, is often the result of an inversion though several are more often produced. |
