A tornado ultimately dissipates and ends when its essential supply of warm, moist updraft air is cut off or disrupted. This typically happens when the parent thunderstorm moves over cooler terrain, encounters stable dry air, outruns its inflow boundary, or undergoes an occluded rear-flank downdraft that chokes off the rotating vortex, causing the funnel to stretch, weaken, and collapse.
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