Tornado

A tornado located in Oklahoma.

While getting my fix from my most recent addiction, the discovery channel, I was mindful of how a tornado is an excellent representation of Bernoulli's principle. A tornado forms in a very similar manner to a hurricane. There is a low pressure center that causes a wind gradient. The flow of air in this gradient is what causes the high winds. Writing the Bernoulli equation for the low pressure center and the area of high winds circling the low pressure center, you can see how as you move farther from the low pressure center that the energy stored in pressure is converted to kinetic energy causing the high velocity winds.