A Million Green Ideas » tornadoes http://www.milliongreenideas.com Green Living, Environmental Living Thu, 19 May 2011 18:23:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Is there something about the urban city environment that helps kill or weaken tornadoes? http://www.milliongreenideas.com/is-there-something-about-the-urban-city-environment-that-helps-kill-or-weaken-tornadoes/ http://www.milliongreenideas.com/is-there-something-about-the-urban-city-environment-that-helps-kill-or-weaken-tornadoes/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:14:50 +0000 admin http://www.milliongreenideas.com/is-there-something-about-the-urban-city-environment-that-helps-kill-or-weaken-tornadoes/

Is this why tornadoes are so rare in big cities? Is it something about all the big buildings and congestion? Almost everytime they show a tornado its always in the middle of no where in a corn field somewhere. What causes most big tornadoes to stay away from the city?

Best reply by John C:

The heat dome!

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Is there something about the urban city environment that helps kill or weaken tornadoes?

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