TORNADOES

TORNADO DEFINITION

• A violent rotating columm of air
• extending from a thunderstorm
• to the ground.

TORNADO PICTURES

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TORNADO FACTS

• The chances that a tornado is a f5
• the highest classification for a tornado on the F-scale, is less than 0.1%
• A tornado can occur at any time,but most often between 3pm and 9pm.
• Watersprouts are tornados that form over a body of water.
• The UNITED STATES have an average of 800 tornados every year.

TORNADO FACTS

• The damage of a tornado is usually less than 1,600 feet wide.
• Tornado wind may exceed 300 miles (400 kilometers) per hour.
• There are 148 tornadoes in 16 states.
• Most tornadoes form from severe thunderstorms.
• Small tornado sometimes form on the edge of bigger tornadoes.

MORE FUN FACTS ABOUT TORNADOES

• The UK gets about 60 tornadoes a year, even with its moderate climate.
• Tornadoes is from the Spanish word,tronada,meaning thunderstorm.
• Dust Devils are strong tornadoes that pass over desert areas.
• Tornadoes have hit places even in big cities like in Brooklyn.
• Sometimes multiple tornadoes form and travel together in swarms.

MORE PICTURES OF TORNADOES

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