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    ruin their life. According to Tornado-facts, Tornadoes do a lot of damage. Tornadoes cost a lot of money. People call tornadoes cyclones. Tornadoes condition is rain, sleet, and hail. Tornadoes happen in minutes. Tornadoes are shaped like a cone. When tornadoes happen heat from the surface cause air to rise. The air rising into the storm clouds is called an updraft. The biggest tornadoes have a speed of 207. The most dangerous tornadoes occur in the United States. A tornado can also come any time. Tornadoes

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    The “Tornado Town, USA” article, published on May 26, 2016 by Maggie Koerth-Baker enlightens us about the menacing natural disaster known as tornado. The purpose of this piece, or how I viewed it, is to inform us about how tornadoes form and what their capabilities. Mrs. Baker, through her writing, pursues to better educate us on the terrifying and chaotic nature of a tornado. I believe Mrs. Baker exquisitely uses the logical and emotional appeal in order to hook and sedate readers into her writing

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    2011 contained one of the deadliest and costliest tornado seasons the United States has ever seen, leaving 550+ dead. In one year alone, 1,692 tornadoes touched-down, primary in the area known as “Tornadoes Alley” (extending from Texas to Minnesota). April had the highest amount of reported tornadoes for the year, totaling 875. The deadliest tornado of 2011 was the EF5 that devastated Joplin, Missouri in the evening of May 22nd. The tornado, whose winds spans averaged 200 MPH, took the lives

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    The article Joplin tornado shows how a tornado can be so dangerous. The reason why it was so dangerous is because it was one of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history. Also one hundred fifty-eight people died and more than one thousand people were injured. Another thing is that it was a F-5 tornado. The last reason why it was so dangerous is because it flattened 99 percent of a neighborhood. Finally the Joplin tornado was dangerous and horrible and a lot of people died and were injured, and houses

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    Hurricanes and tornados are both atmospheric windstorms that occur naturally and have the potential power to cause massive devastations. Hurricanes and tornadoes are different phenomena in many aspects. Both are caused by some changes in atmospheric conditions such as air temperature, pressure wind speed. While a hurricane is a storm that is originated in oceans, cover large area and is associated with strong winds and heavy rains, a tornado is a rotating column of wind that is generated on land

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    TORNADO ALLEY One day 2 years ago, on June 10th, nate and his friends were riding home from a football game. The day was dark and was really warm. The ground was really cold and there was a breeze but Nate and his friends made it to a gas station. They went in to get somethings and come back out 5 minutes later and see a tornado a tornado coming towards the gas station. They didn't know what to do the sirens went off and stuff was getting dragged into the tornado. There was a paper rack in the gas

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    Moore Tornado Case Study

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    The 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado (locally referred to as the May 3 tornado) was an extremely powerful F5 tornado in which the highest wind speeds ever measured globally, 301 miles per hour (484 km/h), were recorded by a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) radar. The tornado devastated southern portions of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, along with surrounding suburbs and towns during the early evening of May 3, 1999. Throughout its 85-minute existence, the tornado covered 38 miles (61 km), destroying thousands of

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    A disaster A tornado is coming to town and the wind was blustering. Before it was on track to rain you can favor the rain in the air. The tornado ripped through houses and stores and other equipment that was in its manner and when it was done everything to trees to houses was turn into food for the tornado. In the remoteness you can hear shrieks from ladies and fellas that was frightened of the tornado. The weather was windy and rough outside because of the disaster that was coming and the whole

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    Tornados and hurricanes are often thought of as very similar, even at times identical. Both are destructive and can kill people, yet at the same time there must be a difference, because why would they be called different things if they were the same? Well, although both hurricanes and tornados have many things in common, some may be surprised to know how different they can be. Hurricanes and tornados are related in many ways. One such way is there appearance. According to Hammond, “A tornado can

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    Moore on May 20. One Oklahoma tornado on Friday was the widest ever recorded in the United States at 2.6 miles (4.2 km), the National Weather Service said. An award-winning Oklahoma

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