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What Makes A Tornado?
“The sky is falling through and you ain’t got much longer til the rage rips off the roof ,I’m a tornado and i’m coming after you.”-google images.One of the most powerful and dangerous natural disasters is a Tornado because they are some of the world’s most deadliest natural disasters. What happens in a tornado, high winds and a low pressure system start rotating very fast until they eventually touches the ground or a body of water. How can a tornado be dangerous? Once it touches the ground it will destroy everything in its path, It also picks up things and throws them far with a lot of force, Another thing is if it picks you up itself you can be thrown into thing and die from being hit to hard. Just think what would go through your mind if you encounter a tornado.

What happens after a tornado touches the ground? an article states on live sciences, “There could be people dead, debris scattered all around, and the worst of all, people could be dead, “Destruction” is a tornadoes middle name”. There is all types of things that can be destroyed, such as houses, cars, buildings
And many other things. Just think of all the money you will need to repair your broken belongings.
Now do you get the picture how deadly tornadoes are.

Now let's get to how fast a tornado spins and how is can throw things straight into the air. A tornado can go as
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The best thing to do when there is there is tornado is take shelter in your bathroom because it is the safest place to hide if you do not have a tornado shelter. In 2011, 553 total people have died from a tornado, Every year is unpredictable, tornadoes can be not that dangerous when they are very small but when they are very big they are very dangerous. The most dangerous tornado there is, is called a F5 tornado, that’s 300 miles that can be very deadly. It will run over you like nothing, a tornado is measured by a fujita

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