How big in diameter do tornadoes get?
Tornadoes have been known to range in diameter from 3 feet to two miles. The last one recorded to be 2 miles wide was seen near the town of Gruver in the Texas Panhandle on June 9, 1971. These giant ones, however , generally don’t have high wind speeds. • Okay, okay, so if trailers don’t attract tornadoes, why do so many trailer parks get hit by tornadoes? There are probably hundreds (maybe more than a thousand) very small tornadoes that touch down in the USA every year, but are not recorded because they do no damage. However, since a mobile home flips over so easily in even the weakest tornado, trailers probably act as “mini tornado” detectors. This makes it seem like tornadoes are attracted to mobile homes, but that is because trailers are the only things that reveal the presence of what would otherwise be an unrecorded event. • How strong a wind does it really take to blow over a mobile home? Lightweight mobile homes can be flipped by a 60 mile per hour wind. Heavier mobile homes ma
