Tornadoes!
They are scary!
Helicopter Gets Sucked Into A Tornado Man Falls Out
How they are made:
- A tornado is made from humid air and colder air
- its from one going one going one direction
- then the other going the other direction
Tornadoes do have scales used to measure severity
- I have put them under this slide
- They have weak & high winds
Tornado Winds
Weak/Moderate Winds
- sliding shingles
- flagpoles bend and some roof damage
- strong does considerable damage with flagpoles collapse and softwood trees debarked
High Winds
- flagpoles collapse and softwood trees debarked
- small parts of houses break
- small parts of school parts break from school
- mid and high rising buildings collapse
Where they are mostly hit:
- They mostly hit near the eastern part of the United States
- They hit in Texas, Mississippi, sometimes Virginia, and the other eastern states
- we are near the coast so we don't get many tornadoes
Tornadoes warnings
- They predict when a tornado is going to hit with at a storm prediction center in Oklahoma
- Meteorologist created a system to alert tornadoes or the possibility the might occur
Precautions of a tornado
- They help you get ready for the tornado is coming
- It gives you a warning so you can try to get in a safe spot
- That is what a precaution of a tornado is
Clouds in a tornado
- There is a type of cloud in a tornado
- It is a cumulonimbus cloud
- It is a cumulonimbus cloud because they observe as a tube or funnel shaped cloud
What a tornado and what does it mean
- A tornado is a bad thunderstorm
- It's can be very dangerous and can make a lot of damage
- It's a violent windstorm that rapidly rotating and air extends from the base of a thunderstorm to the ground