Tornado From Space
Space tornadoes is a weather term that can have 2 different meanings.
Tornado from space. A noaa satellite captured an image of a 68 mile long scar left by one of easter s powerful tornadoes. Cosmic tornadoes from young stars. A space tornado is solar windstorm and is exponentially larger and more powerful than conventional tornadoes on earth.
Tornado scar seen from space. Meteorologist ari sarsalari takes a look at some google earth images that show the effects of a tornado from space. Keep in mind that only terrestrial tornadoes on earth are technically classified as a real tornado.
Across southern mississippi two long track tornadoes ran almost parallel tracks. New satellite images show the mass devastation caused by some of the deadly tornadoes that struck sunday. An ef 3 tornado that struck north texas in october created such widespread damage that its path can be seen from space.
Tornadoes on earth are formed within the atmosphere by thunderstorms while space tornadoes are formed by plasma interacting with magnetic fields. A new image taken dec. Satellite images reveal scars etched into landscape from deadly tornado outbreak in south satellites peer down from space on the wounds left by powerful storms an image from nasa shows the scar of.
The animation below shows a comparison of nasa satellite. A space tornado can mean a tornado that occurs in outer space or it can mean terrestrial tornadoes that can be seen from space.