Could Reagan's satellite based laser alter a tornado?

Orbiting bombs? What an idiotic thought! Lets fast forward to today, put the satellites where the solar panels can gain maximum energy and use them the way Arthur C Clarke envisioned them, as multi-use instruments of VERY selective weapons of surgical destruction. It's all pretty doable now,

The enemy fires a missile, it's heat signal is detected and it is decommissioned in flight with a megawatt laser. Why destroy the gun, just make it electric and utilize alternative effects the rig could be capable of. Those west coasters would like a bit of rain, I bet the fire fighters sure would.

A hurricane wall is a higher pressure than the eye, what if that wall could be sliced like a watermelon and its two halves collide into each other while still a few hundred miles from land-fall.

Don't get stuck in the cold-war era, ioerr,

Satellites nor lasers can alter a tornado.

reagan never deployed any space based lasers. the idea that was looked into was to orbit a nuclear weapon that would power a bunch of rods independently targeted at various missles, destroying the missles and the space based laser satellite at the same time. it was a one shot system, and they never got it work well anyway. aside from the tiny issue that it would require orbiting nuclear bombs

The tornado would be altered very little.