Tornado poppers

Tornado formation is a surprisingly complex and difficult process. You need the weather conditions to be just right and have no major geographic obstacles, but despite large amounts of research and powerful simulators, the mechanisms are still quite poorly understood. “Storm chasers” have been developing methods trying to predict where a tornado will touch down for quite a few years (not unlike the movie “Twister”). But once it does touch down, there is not much anybody can do about it, except for getting out of the way. Fast. What I’m proposing here is to try to fight back. The way you would do this is by dropping a blast bomb near the epicenter of the formation cell, while the tornado is gathering power. The kind of bomb you would use is one that creates a powerful shockwave but minimize spraying deadly shrapnel. My guess is that the wind of a powerful enough shockwave could destabilize the forming tornado and would either break it apart into smaller vortices or dissipate it altogether.

Needless to say, scrambling a jet bomber or launching a guided missile for such a task would be a major operation. Not to mention the great risks involved if the tornado is anywhere near a populated area. But the possibility of saving human lives, not to mention billions of dollars in property damage, would probably make it worthwhile.