Tornado Hits South Side of San José
At least
one family spent the night Saturday night in
community hall after a tornado practically
tore off the entire roof of their house. A
mother and her five children where the
hardest affected by the afternoon cyclone
that his the areas on the south side of San
José.
The afternoon storm that brought heavy rain
and strong winds damaged some 30 plus homes
in the areas of Paso Ancho, San Rafael
de Desamparados and San Sebastián..
The strong winds also brought down a number
of electrical cables that left many without
power for hours until CNFL word crews could
restore services.
Tornadoes in Costa Rica
Tornadoes is Costa Rica are few and far in
between and usually weak, lasting only for a
few minutes - on average 15 minutes - are
stationary and travel in an erratic, but
restricted to the area of cloudiness.
A typical tornado is a violent, dangerous,
rotating column of air which is in contact
with both the surface of the earth and a
cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the
base of a cumulus cloud. Tornadoes come in
many sizes but are typically in the form of
a visible condensation funnel, whose narrow
end touches the earth and is often encircled
by a cloud of debris and dust.
Most tornadoes have wind speeds between 40
mph (64 km/h) and 110 mph (177 km/h), are
approximately 250 feet (75 m) across, and
travel a few miles (several kilometers)
before dissipating. Some attain wind speeds
of more than 300 mph (480 km/h), stretch
more than a mile (1.6 km) across, and stay
on the ground for dozens of miles (more than
100 km).
Although tornadoes have been observed on
every continent except Antarctica, the vast
majority of tornadoes in the world occur in
the United States, and specifically, in the
Tornado Alley region of the country. They
also commonly occur in southern Canada,
south-central and eastern Asia, the
Philippines, east-central South America,
Southern Africa, northwestern and southeast
Europe, western and southeastern Australia,
and New Zealand. |
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