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    How Tornadoes Happen

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    Each year about a thousand tornadoes hit the United States, much more than any other country. Tornadoes are very dangerous in multiple ways! A tornado is a spinning cloud that has a funnel shape. They can have very rapid and high wind speeds. They sound very powerful! A tornado is made up of many factors. This paper will discuss where most tornadoes occur. How a tornado forms. The various wind speeds of a tornado. Last but not least, the sound of tornadoes. Most tornadoes occur in Tornado Alley.

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    Hurricanes Vs Tornadoes

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    an idea. Hurricanes and Tornadoes are both very dangerous storms. They can kill tons of people and do a lot of damage. Hurricanes happen near the equator. Tornadoes usually happen in flat land places. They are both very interesting topics to learn about. There are about 1,200 tornadoes each year. These tornadoes happen in flat land, but usually don’t do that much damage. Sometimes they are in hurricanes, but only in the North East side of it. Tornadoes are usually not very big

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    Tornadoes Vs Hurricanes

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    Did you know that tornadoes can be “described as cyclonic because of the way the wind rotate.” , from the article “What You Should Know about Tornados” This essay is about how hurricanes and tornadoes have many differences and similarities. A tornado is a “frequently visible cone that tornadoes narrow points.” The definition of hurricane is a “wind from a rotating storm.” First of all there are many different similarities that tornadoes and hurricanes have in common. In fact the similarities between

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    and tornadoes can happen all over the world. Tornadoes and hurricanes can also be very dangerous. Tornadoes mostly happen on dry land where all the warm. Hurricanes and tornadoes come in many sizes, cost lots of money because of damages, and require you to take shelter. To begin with, the first thing is the size. A tornado can get up to 300 miles wide. A hurricane can get up to 2.5 miles wide. They both can get up to 70 feet tall. Last but not least the both have categorize the tornadoes categories

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    Tornadoes are a force of nature that should not to be messed with. They are incredibly dangerous and unpredictable. Tornadoes have the power to entirely level massive structures in one fowl swoop, without ever leaving a single part standing. Tornadoes are most common in the U.S. and warrant a serious problem for the health and safety of its citizens. Tornadoes are a deadly force of nature. They cause massive destruction and death. “Tornadoes are the most violent of all atmospheric storms.” (www

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    A tornado is a massive and violent spinning column of air that comes into contact with the ground and produces strong winds. Tornadoes are formed when a number of things all happen together to create their destructive power. Tornadoes can happen in many places around the world but the most are in tornado ally in the U.S. Most tornadoes are short lived and don’t last more than a few minuets but have lasted for a couple hours. In the late 1980s, a tornado swept through Yellowstone leaving a path

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    The Tri-State tornado of 1925 crossed three state lines causing billions in damage and killing hundreds; it was the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history. It is difficult to determine whether the tornado was altered by climate change. However, we can theorize about the possible effects of climate change on tornadoes in general to gain insight on future outcomes. Tornadoes arise from supercell thunderstorms. When condensation occurs, latent heat is released causing powerful updrafts of air. Warm, moist

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    What are tornadoes? How do they form? Many people, including scientists, meteorologists, and people affected by tornadoes are looking to answer these very important questions. Areas of research on tornadoes focus often on how tornadoes form, how they are monitored, and what kind of scale is used to rate the damage they can create. Next, tornadoes are very unpredictable because they can form any time. Meteorologists try their best to keep them monitored. Meteorologists use the Doppler Radar to

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    Residents of the United States have the opportunity to experience every type of extreme weather mother nature has to throw at planet Earth. Everything from the violent tornadoes of Tornado Alley, to the incredible power of hurricanes on the east coast, to the brutal winters of the northern states. What is the science behind these extreme storms, how can something so natural, be so devastating? Why are some areas of our country more prone to these monster storms, than others? How can we protect

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    Greensburg Tornadoes

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    A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that spins while in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. This is what hit a little town called Greensburg Kansas, no bigger than 785 people. The tornado ripped through the town like a child goes through their present on Christmas morning. From this day on Greensburg will never be the same, dreams and hopes scattered everywhere. But, Greensburg came back and hit the tornado

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