TORNADO

FUNNEL AND WALL CLOUDS

• Funnel clouds are funnel shaped clouds of condensed water droplets.
• Wall clouds developes beneath a cumulonimbus cloud and forms the tornado.

DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF TORNADOS

• They are named from F0-F5 scale

TORNADO ALLEY LOCATION

• Northern Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas.

THREE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS

• Destroys buildings
• Trees
• Kills animals

MOST DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO IN THE UNITED STATES

• The tri-state tornado
• Went through Missouri, Illinois, and Nebraska on March 18th 1925.

LOCAL TORNADO

• May 12th 2000, 3 miles north of the whitney dam.
• There was 2 deaths and 38 homes were destroyed
• 27 homes were damaged

TORNADO SEASON

• The season peaks at different time for different locations.
• Cause each state is different.