A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of two hundred and fifty miles per hour or more. Damage paths can be more than one mile wide and fifty miles long. In an average year‚ eight hundred tornadoes are reported nationwide‚ resulting in eighty deaths and over one thousand five hundred injuries. In the body of my essay‚ I will tell you about types of tornadoes
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What is a tornado? A tornado is a violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. Tornados are particularly associated with severe thunderstorms because stronger storms make it easier for tornados to form. During a supercell storm‚ characterized by powerful updrafts‚ warm‚ less heavy air begins to rise and meets colder and heavier air above it. Wind shears make tornadoes easier to form. A wind shear is when a warmer air collides with a colder air. Faster air begins to
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Tornados A tornado can start when a large Cumulonimbus cloud forms . Cumulonimbus clouds form squall lines that exist as individual towers Squall lines are lines that form in front of a cold front in front of the storm that contains precipitation‚tornadoes‚hail‚ After the clouds combine‚ vigorous updrafts start to form and the clouds can grow to a height of 39‚000 ft. The clouds are made of water droplets. When the temperature in the atmosphere decreases to 32 degrees Fahrenheit
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Alaska‚ Rhode Island and Vermont is closer to zero than to one. In Oklahoma and Texas‚ the average jumps to 52 and 126‚ respectively‚ though the high number in Texas is mainly due to the state’s size. To account for the different sizes of states‚ tornado averages for the USA are compared by looking at the annual number per 10‚000 square miles — an around about the size of Vermont. For example‚ Oklahoma is about 70‚000 square miles‚ or about seven Vermonts. If the entire state averages 52 tornadoes
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Journal Article Write Up On May 22nd 2011 an EF-5 tornado struck Joplin Missouri‚ leaving houses destroyed and cars thrown through the air this was a devastating event. This devastating tornado was only on the ground for 38 minutes and had only traveled for roughly 22.1 miles. At the widest point‚ the tornado was around a ½ mile long with other distances measuring about a ¼ mile. When looking at the EF-5 devastation of the storm‚ the most destruction took part right through the middle of Joplin
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public as breathtaking spectacles of amazement fire tornados have been seen all over the world in recent years like never before. In this TV new report‚ I found on-line‚ provided by ABC News and by Australian Filmmaker Chris Tangey. His video shows the awesome dangers they inflict when they form. Sam Champion does a brilliant job detailing the seriousness of these events to viewers how Firenadoes form‚ what causes them‚ and how dangerous they can be. My argument will show Firenados share many similarities
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Hurricane and Tornado Essay Have you ever been in a hurricane or tornado? Do you know how to prepare for it? You would usually hide in a basement‚ a cellar‚ or evacuate the premises for a hurricane. There are three categories of comparing and contrasting for hurricanes and tornados. The first category I am going to talk about is how much damage does a hurricane and tornado do? The second category I am going to talk about is how big a tornado and hurricane get up to. The last category I am going
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once a tragedy strikes. I wake up‚ April 18‚ 2011‚ and put on my old work clothes. This is the day the students of Ridge View and surrounding schools would be let out of school to help the tornado victims of Early and Nemaha. Many homes and fields were destroyed by the tornadoes that had hit just one week earlier. I was happy to not only get out of school for the day‚ but to also show my love and support for the community as well. My group and I were first assigned to clean up in and along a
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The state of Oklahoma is no stranger to the threat of tornados‚ being located inside the area known as the tornado alley of the United States. They call Moore‚ Oklahoma‚ “Tornado Ally in Tornado Alley”. It had been a number of days of severe weather in the area‚ which is not uncommon in Oklahoma during the month of May. People in Moore‚ as well as central Oklahoma‚ had been cautioned that there would probably be a very bad storm but no one expected how early the storm would form (Worrall‚ 2015).
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what to do to prepare your family for tornado weather. The two best things you can do are: Be informed. Listen to the local weather station‚ check Google for weather‚ or check the weather on your phone. Also‚ allowing severe weather alerts on your phone allows you to get tornado watch messages when the weather is turning and tornado warnings when a tornado has touched down in your area. Heed warnings and seek shelter underground immediately in case of a tornado warning. Be prepared. Keep on hand
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