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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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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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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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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Oklahoma Tornado On Monday may 20th‚ 2013 a devastating tornado ripped through the small town of Moore‚ Oklahoma. This tornado was part of an outbreak of tornados that began in the plains on the 19th. Many towns were affected by Monday’s tornado however Moore got the brute of it. Moore is just 20 minutes south of Oklahoma City. The final death toll is 24 people; this was considered a miracle considering the amount of damage. Many rescue crews worked day and night to try to save as many people
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“How to Prepare for a Tornado” Tornadoes can be devastating acts of nature. Part of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes are rotating‚ whirling winds that appear in a funnel shape. These storms can reach winds of 300 miles per hour‚ and can devastate neighborhoods and towns in minutes and is very dangerous. In order to protect yourself and your family from this natural disaster you will need to prepare before the disaster even occurs. Tornados can be a very frightening disaster and it’s always
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become entangled in an unpleasant sounding mess. Rain shot down from the dark sky‚ like small volts of electricity‚ stinging my face with each droplet. My neighbors‚ decked in rain coats and rubber boots‚ forced my sister and I along the sidewalk. Tornado sirens were screaming in the distance for what had seemed like hours. I had known they were far off‚ but they felt so close; screeching as if for one last plea of attention or a warning to find safety. I shoved my palms over my ears‚ attempting to
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Ministry of Educational Zone Tornado INTRODUCTION The word tornado is an altered form of the Spanish word tronada‚ which means thunderstorm. This in turn was taken from the Latin tonare‚ meaning to thunder. It most likely reached its present form through a combination of the Spanish tronada and tornar. A tornado is also commonly referred to as a twister‚ and is also sometimes referred to by the old-fashioned colloquial term HYPERLINK http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone o Cyclone cyclone. HYPERLINK
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It is believed that Scott Joplin was on born November 24‚ 1868. No one really knows the exact date of his birth‚ but research by ragtime historian Ed Berlin revealed that he was born sometime between June 1867 and January 1868. His information is based on a U.S Census. Scott Joplin’s parents were Florence Givens and Jiles Joplin. They notice Scott Joplin’s music ability at an early age. His mother cleaned houses so that Scott Joplin would have a place to practice his music. His father worked hard
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devastating and deadly natural disasters are the hurricane and the tornado which both cause heavy amounts of damage and are uncontrollable. There are many similarities in how hurricanes and tornadoes are formed. Although they are distinct disasters‚ hurricanes‚ and tornadoes pose similar threats to resources because of high winds which can destroy properties and affect the economy along with people’s lives. Both the hurricane‚ and the tornado are rated on a category scale. First‚ devastating‚ and deadly
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