Do tornadoes target mobile home parks?
While it may appear tornadoes target mobile home parks, they actually do not. An F1 tornado might do significant damage to a mobile home, and cause minor damage to a site built home — looking like the tornado “skipped” the house. Mobile homes are, in general, much easier for a tornado to damage and destroy than well-built houses and office buildings. A mobile home, or manufactured home, by definition, is built at a factory and taken to the place they will occupy–so they are much more affordable than a house built on-site. Also, they are often built with lighter-weight materials, which do not hold up well in tornadic winds. Straight-line winds can also destroy a mobile home as easily as a tornado, especially one that is not anchored. Any wind gust that is sustained for 3 seconds over 50mph can cause damage to mobile homes. These websites may be of interest to you: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/mhdeadly.htm http://www.ametsoc.org/POLICY/statement_2004_mobilehomes.html http://scie
