Severe Weather Tornado by Joseph Yang

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Severe Weather Tornado

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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Tornadoes are a circle shape that has winds going around really fast.
Tornadoes need warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and cool dry air from Canada.

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They need low level moisture and a "trigger" to lift the moist air. Then the air rises and it becomes saturated. After that it will continue and to rise and will become a thunderstorm.
If the atmosphere is unstable then the temperature decreases rapidly.
Tornadoes can appear anywhere in the US but usually appears in South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Tornadoes usually gets measured from a scale called Fujita Scale. Fujita Scale is a scale that estimates it's wind speed.
They detect the tornadoes from a radar they have and then forecast it in the news.

It depends on the category.
F1 tornadoes can peel surface of the roofs, mobile houses pushed off foundations or overturned, and moving auto's blown off.
F2 tornadoes makes roof torn off frame houses, mobile homes destroyed, cars lifted off ground, etc.
F3 tornadoes makes roof and some walls torn off well-made houses, trains overturned, and etc.
F4 tornadoes makes well-made houses weak, and cars thrown.
F5 makes strong house swept away, trees debarked, and etc.

To be safe you have to go to the lowest room of your house like a basement.
If you don't have one then you go to a closet, bathroom, or a small room with no windows.

One is when they say there is a tornado watch it means that conditions are right for a tornado.
Second is if there's a tornado warning then it means they detected one on there radar or they seen it.
So when there's a tornado warning then you should have a room with medication cause hospital is probably going to be filled.
Second is simple food because most of your food will probably going to be destroyed.
Third is clothes to protect you or keep you warm.
Fourth is copy important papers just in case you lose them and you don't want to.
Last is batteries with a flashlight just in case the building collapse and it's all dark.

Because to know when something bad is going to happen and you can prepare for when it comes.

No because Wisconsin is too far from the Gulf of Mexico and Wisconsin doesn't have a lot of flat ground for tornadoes to be created.

A tornado in Oklahoma destroyed a whole motel and later the people found the motel sign in Arkansas. Tornadoes winds are the fastest winds on earth.
The deadliest tornado was in 1925 and it swept through three states and killed 689 people and injured about 2,000 people.