Tornado family

[1] These families form a line of successive or parallel tornado paths and can cover a short span or a vast distance.

To determine the average track length of a tornado, both of these factors must be taken into account.

[3] Some tornado damage remains a mystery even today due to a lack of evidence.

Especially when newly forming, tornadoes may sometimes exhibit brief breaks in the damage path even as the parent circulation is continuous.

Such events may be considered as "skipping", a term that originally referred to what now is typically a tornado family.