00:00Could two tornadoes actually collide? Not really, but they can get close enough together to interact.
00:05Sometimes, as one tornado weakens, the same thunderstorm spins up a second tornado nearby.
00:10Those are called twin tornadoes, and sometimes the smaller tornado rotates around the larger
00:15parent tornado. That's called a satellite tornado, and it's what a lot of those tornado collision
00:20videos actually show. In some cases, the smaller tornado can get pulled into the larger tornado's
00:26circulation, causing one or both tornadoes to weaken or even collapse. One of the best examples
00:31happened near Akron, Colorado back in 2023, when twin tornadoes spun side by side in an open field.
00:37Then the smaller satellite tornado was pulled into the parent circulation, and both tornadoes basically
00:42collapsed. So if you ever see colliding tornadoes online, you're probably actually watching this
00:47tornado science in action.
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