Strong tornadoes are perfectly capable of throwing people through the air for significant distances.
I ask this because of people who returned to see if family hungered down were safe...only to find the home and the people completely gone...so if these things suck up houses then can a person survive if they get lifted up into these tornado’s???????? or does the verocity of the spin just destroy them????
People who are taken airborn in a tornado are almost always killed. Either they are struck by debris that kills them (even small debris at 250 mph can be deadly), or they are killed by the landing. There have been notable exceptions, but they are just that - exceptions.
Thank you xjcsa...I wondered if possible for a person to be swept up and swirled about in a Tornado...and live thru that. Apparently generally they cannot.
So many houses checked for those who hunkered down in them are gone, along with the people who were in them, so I wondered if a house was gone would it have been possible they lived just thrown miles away.
These tornados were especially violent so I doubt any could have lived if swept up.