Tornado Theory

[RobertEarl]

3. Not so fast

In your post there is support for my theory.

Quote: "cool, moist air from the downdraft region of the storm.."

Yep, cool moist water laden air is in the downdraft we see. Now what is heavier? Dry air or moist air? The answer is moist air, as in rainwater saturated air. That rain is falling from on high at a tremendous speed. What does it do when it hits the ground? It smashes what ever it hits.

When you see the tornado forming and dropping from the cloud, what is in that tornado but "cold moist air" directly from the cloud.

Experiment: Hold a funnel 5 feet from the ground. Now pour water down into that funnel of a sufficient amount and the funnel will concentrate that water into a point that can eat away concrete. Of course that is a small scale representation of what happens in the clouds.

Now, as that water hits the ground, it displaces air. If there is already a circulation occurring, it just feeds that circulation.