Tornado : West Bengal
A tornado hit the Mainaguri area of Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal.
- The tornado hit caused significant destruction, resulting in the tragic loss of five lives and injuring over 300 people.
- A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that forms a connection between the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud (or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud).
- Tornadoes are funnel-shaped storms with very low pressure at the center.
- They are the smallest but most violent and disastrous of all the storms.
- Tornadoes generally occur in middle latitudes.
- Steep pressure gradients result in fast movement of air towards the center.
