Can a tornado lift person off into the air?

Yes… a tornado… or any other sufficiently strong current of air, CAN exert a force, sufficient enough, to move a human being in a violent, and very involuntary manner. read more

Yes, a tornado can lift a person but not that high. Consider this: a human body is roughly 300 times denser than the air. As it is being lifted, it suffers the spinning moment of the tornado; mostly counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere but, sometimes clockwise (anticyclonic tornado). read more

If a tornado can do that, there can be no doubt at all that a tornado could pick up a person (who weighs on average less than a tenth what a car weighs on average) and throw him or her hundreds of feet into the air. read more

“Tornadoes have two means of picking up vehicles,” said Fred Haan, a professor of mechanical engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana, who has worked on tornado simulations for about a decade. read more