Would the Hurricane Fluttershy water tornado thing actually work?

Toastypk
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Hey people who really know their physics- would creating a stationary cyclone like the pegasi do in Hurricane Fluttershy actually cause a lift of what was in the center?
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@Toastypk
Well if you’re talking about using it the way they do in the episode, i.e., as a method of lifting water up to the weather factory, then no. In our world there are naturally occurring tornadoes that form over water, and they (by and large) do not suck up water.
If you’d like an answer with a bit more math involved, consider, one cubic inch of water weighs 0.036 pounds. 12 of these “cubes” stacked on top of each other is 12 x 0.036 pounds = 0.433 pounds. The area under this column is one inch square, so you can see that a one foot column requires 0.433 pounds/square inch (PSI) of pressure to support it. Scaling this up, if you wanted to lift a column of water to, for example, 100 feet in the air, you’d need 43.3 PSI at ground level to do so. Now, one of the largest pressure drops recorded during a tornado (not a waterspout, which is typically weaker, but an actual on land tornado) was 194 millibars, which can be converted to a PSI of 2.814. If you could somehow apply that to a column of water, That would be ~6.56 feet, which is pretty impressive, but nowhere near strong enough for the kind of activity shown in the episode.
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