Skipping tornado

Skipping tornado

A skipping tornado is a vaguely defined term which refers to a tornado which has a discontinuous damage path. This may be due to several factors:
#The tornado actually lifting from the surface (which technically makes the two damage paths separate tornadoes)
#The tornado passing over a portion of land where there are no structures or vegetation capable of showing damage
#The tornado temporarily weakening so that the winds are below the damage threshold of the structures or vegetation being affected.

ee also

*Funnel cloud
*Tornado intensity and damage

References

* [http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/a_tornado/atornado_fn.html What is a tornado? (footnotes)]
* [http://www.spc.noaa.gov/publications/mccarthy/tor30yrs.pdf Tornado trends over the past thirty years (PDF)]


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