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    is coming but with a tornado it is like magic you don't get a couple days like you would a tornado a tornado just appears. Now here's a comparison of the two There are signs that a tornado and a hurricane is about to happen here are the things that will happen if a tornado is going to hit. There is a dark often greenish sky, walls of clouds approaching a cloud of debris, large hail often in absence of rain and the last sine of a tornado is before it strikes

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    A tornado is a viscous and possibly deadly occurrence in our weather that can happen at any time or any place around the world with almost no warning. I reside in the panhandle of Florida where we have hurricanes and tornadoes. Weather forecasters can give people enough warning that they can prepare and/or leave in the event of a hurricane, however a tornado is much different. Hurricanes present favorable weather conditions for tornadoes, as well as normal, everyday, rainy weather patterns do

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    My Tornado Plan

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    ever thought or came up with a plan if a tornado was to touch down by your house.Well if you haven't you really need to its very important to have a plan not just for a tornado but any bad storm.So if you had no plan if something bad like this happened it could go bad quick or you can die.Thats why it is very important to have a plan for anything.One day my family and I was watching a football game and the game went off and the news came on they said a tornado was heading right towards or house.The

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    A Tornado Research Paper

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    A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that spins while in surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.  They are often referred to as twisters, whirlwinds or cyclones What is a tornado? Before it was called tornado to the storms that took place in the African coasts. Now, on the contrary, they are called terrestrial trunks like nebulae whose vertex is directed to the ground. A tornado is an aerial phenomenon that has the appearance

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    Tri-State Tornado

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    Tri-State Tornado; March 18th, 1925 a major fatality happened. A tornado happens when moist and dry air create a funnel,which turns into a tornado. The Tri-State Tornado happened three miles Northeast of Ellington, Missouri and made its way through Illinois and Indiana. More than 13,000 people were injured and 585-695 people died. This devastation was hard to recover from. In this project we are going to see which out of History Channel and US Tornadoes tells me more about the Tri-State Tornado. US Tornadoes

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    Tornado Outbreak Essay

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    giant storm called a tornado outbreak. While many states issued states of emergency, Alabama was hit the hardest. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, April 27, 2011 holds the record for the most tornadoes of any day, 200. Combined with an estimated single day death toll of 316, April 2011’s tornado outbreak has changed how scientists study tornadoes. Before looking specifically at April 2011’s tornado outbreak, it is important to understand what a tornado outbreak is; however

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    Joplin Tornado By: Dianna Bp1 : This terrible twister had frightened Joplin Mo, in the year of 2011, May 22. These are some facts . The Joplin tornado traveled for 22 miles on the ground , the highest winds that this tornado had was 200mph 320km. Another fact is that this dangerous Tornado went to be an EF5 tornado, The to tornado had been EF3 , then made its way up to an EF5 tornado. One more fact is that this terrible twister had started at 5:30 and end ended at 6:12 , there was a warning siren

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    Tornado Research Paper

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    Every year we practice tornado drills for our safety. A tornado is a violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground.They can destroy large buildings, trees and vehicles hundreds of yards. Damage paths can be in excess of one mile wide to 50 miles long. In an average year, 1000 tornadoes are reported nationwide. Tornadoes form out of thunderstorms, where moist air rises, cools and condenses into clouds that release heat and force cooler air back down. If the updrafts

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    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) states that a tornado forms when a rotating column of air that meets up with a thunderstorm and hits the ground. (HR Byers, Compendium of Meteorology, pp 681-693) About each year there are about 1,000 tornadoes. A scale called enhanced Fujita (EF) is used to measure the intensity of the tornado. There is a number given to the tornado from 0-5 and that number depends on the wind damage. The wind damage is scaled upon what was hit such as trees

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    What Is Tornado Threats?

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    A tornado is a violent usually characteristics by a twisting, funnel shaped cloud that is caused by a thunderstorm or a hurricane. It is produced when a coo, air mass meets hot air mass and forces the warm air mass to rise over the cool air mass very rapidly. Most of the damage from a tornado is a result of high wind velocity and wind blown debris. Most tornadoes occur during the months of March through August,butt hey can occur during any time of the year. They also seem to strike in the evening

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