TORNADOES

What is a tornado?
A tornado is a destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speed and that is sometimes visible as a funnel-shaped cloud

How do tornadoes form?
A tornado forms when a thunderstorm meets a horizontal wind at a high altitude

Where do tornadoes occur?
Most tornadoes occur in the United States, Europe and in the Caribbean. In the United States, the tornado alley is the area with the highest tornado occurrence. The areas that fall under the tornado alley include Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Illinois.

FUN FACTS!!

• Each year about 1000 tornadoes touch down in America
• 3 out if every 4 tornadoes happen in America
• Tornado winds are the fastest winds on earth
• A tornado in Oklahoma once destroyed a motel and people later found the motels sing in Arkansas
• Each year dozens of Americans die from tornadoes

FUN FACTS CONTINUED

• Only 1% of thunderstorms turn in to tornadoes
• Tornadoes are also called twisters
• Most tornadoes have wind speeds less then 100 miles an hour
• Tri-state tornado was the deadliest tornado in the US history, killing 695
• In the Southern Hemisphere tornadoes usually rotates in a clock wise direction