Tornado dissipation

[maniacalpha1-1]

So, I saw this video of a forming tornado:
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-646569?hpt=hp_bn1

And I thought, wouldn't an explosion, say, the size of a 500-2000 lb aircraft bomb, but not encased in metal, encased in something to reduce shrapnel, dissipate it? The explosion, if it occured at the right point, would create a temporary vacuum that would cancel a tornado out? Perhaps not useful for huge width tornados but for thin and extremely powerful ones, maybe.

USAF Tornado Hunters Squadron?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Have you thought of extending this idea to nuclear weapons and hurricanes yet?

 

[SunnyD]

You try to fly a plane into an active vortex and tell me how that works out for you, k?

 

[DominionSeraph]

And I thought, wouldn't an explosion, say, the size of a 500-2000 lb aircraft bomb, but not encased in metal, encased in something to reduce shrapnel, dissipate it? The explosion, if it occured at the right point, would create a temporary vacuum that would cancel a tornado out?

No.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

Have you thought of extending this idea to nuclear weapons and hurricanes yet?

Of course! But that would leave fallout

You try to fly a plane into an active vortex and tell me how that works out for you, k?

You wouldn't fly into it obviously, it would be like a 2000 lb missile designed to be fired from range and explode inside. Not dropped from inside, lol. Or even dropped from above the clouds completely.

 

[SunnyD]

You wouldn't fly into it obviously, it would be like a 2000 lb missile designed to be fired from range and explode inside. Not dropped from inside, lol. Or even dropped from above the clouds completely.

Still not possible. A missile would miss its mark just as much as a plane would.

The other factor is, more often than not, the tornado would come and go before a response could be made.

But imagine if you will the April tornado outbreak... 336 confirmed tornadoes. That's a lot of ordinance.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

Still not possible. A missile would miss its mark just as much as a plane would.

The other factor is, more often than not, the tornado would come and go before a response could be made.

But imagine if you will the April tornado outbreak... 336 confirmed tornadoes. That's a lot of ordinance.

Maybe...but this would be the ultimate mythbusters episode...they polished a turd once...

 

[Kadarin]

Still not possible. A missile would miss its mark just as much as a plane would.

The other factor is, more often than not, the tornado would come and go before a response could be made.

But imagine if you will the April tornado outbreak... 336 confirmed tornadoes. That's a lot of ordinance.

No kidding. We have way too many laws as it is.

 

[spidey07]

Awesome video. I love tornados.

 

[BoomerD]

I read a semi-sci-fi novel about that exact thing some 20 or 30 years back...there was a squadron (or more) whose mission was to drop and explode bombs in the heart of a forming tornado...

I don't remember the author or actual title, but IIRC, it was a well known writer.