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What's A Tornado

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A tornado is one of nature's most violent storms. A tornado occurs as the result of an updraft in a severe thunderstorm. Tornadoes are most common in the United States during the spring and summer months. However, these storms can develop i...
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According to the Glossary of Meteorology (AMS 2000), a tornado is "A violently rotating column of air, pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a funnel cloud." Litera...
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A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground
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A tornado is a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground, coming into contact with this can literally tear a building to pieces.
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Tornadoes are formed from rising warm, moist air called updrafts. They quickly turn into a vortex of super fast spinning wind. Some tornadoes can reach speeds of up to 300 mph.
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Scott Bachmeier , a research meteorologist at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at UW-Madison, says that particles in the air scatter light. In the day, the particles scatter more violet and blue light, but ou...
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Helplessly watching as the price ticker at the gas pump races upwards, it is easy to become determined to find a quick and uncomplicated way to make your tank of gas go farther. Later that night, you see an infomercial about a tornado fue...
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A tornado is an extremely violent storm that acts as a giant vacuum cleaner - it creates an extremely low atmospheric pressure in its path which causes houses to explode outward. Opening the windows was formerly thought to allow some of the...
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