Im glad that we have no tornados and those stuff over here in europe. In history, i dont remember at all that there was any tornado. But, may this be the last tornado for canada (or something .. :tilt
There are tornados everywhere, the air flow is what creates them so a tornado can hit México, Estonia, England etc.... and I've heard of tornados in germany =P
Tornados can happen anywhere where there is wind shear (varying speeds or directions of wind at varying heights in the atmosphere), these cause vertically rotating air currents called vorticity, when a storm cloud forms it forms due to air rising, and these rotating air currents get tilted horrizontally by the rising air in the storm cloud, causing a Tornado. That is the current thinking anyway, the theory on what causes tornadoes changes every five minutes.
Now if only I could have remembered that in my AS Geography exam... :rolleyes:
And central Europe can get quite a few nasty storms/ tornadoes, I remember when I was in Poland a few years ago we had hail almost golf ball size smashing car windscreens, the region had a few tornadoes that day and one or two large ones, not where I was though.