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Multi vortex tornadoes


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I'm not well-versed in tornado dynamics, but it has to do something with a dimensionless quantity known as the swirl ratio. When this exceeds ~1, the tornado undergoes a process called vortex breakdown from which multiple vortices evolve.

For more information, check out this paper by Lee and Wurman, and go to Figure 11 for a schematic (that section contains the swirl ratio equation and some more stuff):

http://journals.amet....1175/JAS3489.1

Citations found in that section may be helpful.

AtticaFanatica probably knows more about these things.

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