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The Joplin Tornado Effect
The joplin tornado was a terrible tornado. It talks about how it hit the ground and if you drove into in you would probably die. In 20 seconds it grew up to 1/2 a mile and it keeps getting bigger and bigger. This states that tornados are very common and are crazy dangerous. It also says that in a minute it would probably get up to a mile and a half long. This tells me that it gets to at least 15 houses a sec. A tornado is one of america's worst disaster. In the middle of the story it talks about how the joplin tornado is one of the biggest tornadoes in the universe. The effect of the joplin tornado was horible but they came back. Some teenagers to cars and took injured people to the hospital. These tornadoes take up a lot of space. Tornado’s

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