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    Characteristics of Tornado

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    Tornadoes form when warm, less dense air near the surface meets colder, denser air above. This interaction causes the warm air to begin spinning and rolling, eventually forming a fast spinning vortex that stretches from the ground to the storm cloud. Tornadoes are most common in the U.S. between 3-9pm along Tornado Alley from Texas to North Dakota. The Fujita scale is used to rate tornado intensity based on damage. To survive a tornado, seek shelter underground or under heavy furniture and stay away from windows until the storm passes.

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    Tornadoes form when warm, less dense air near the surface meets colder, denser air above. This interaction causes the warm air to begin spinning and rolling, eventually forming a fast spinning vortex that stretches from the ground to the storm cloud. Tornadoes are most common in the U.S. between 3-9pm along Tornado Alley from Texas to North Dakota. The Fujita scale is used to rate tornado intensity based on damage. To survive a tornado, seek shelter underground or under heavy furniture and stay away from windows until the storm passes.

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    Tornadoes form when warm, less dense air near the surface meets colder, denser air above. This interaction causes the warm air to begin spinning and rolling, eventually forming a fast spinning vortex that stretches from the ground to the storm cloud. Tornadoes are most common in the U.S. between 3-9pm along Tornado Alley from Texas to North Dakota. The Fujita scale is used to rate tornado intensity based on damage. To survive a tornado, seek shelter underground or under heavy furniture and stay away from windows until the storm passes.

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    Tornadoes form when warm, less dense air near the surface meets colder, denser air above. This interaction causes the warm air to begin spinning and rolling, eventually forming a fast spinning vortex that stretches from the ground to the storm cloud. Tornadoes are most common in the U.S. between 3-9pm along Tornado Alley from Texas to North Dakota. The Fujita scale is used to rate tornado intensity based on damage. To survive a tornado, seek shelter underground or under heavy furniture and stay away from windows until the storm passes.

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    Tornado- a fast spinning column of air that

    5. 5. Dust Devils - They are swirls that go up


    and fizzle out in the clean air, and they are
    stretches all the way from a thunderstorm cloud
    not connected to the clouds while spinning.
    in the sky down to the Earth’s surface.
    Tornado Fore Casting
    How do Tornadoes Form?  A tornado’s size, strength, direction,
     Tornadoes begin when the sun heats up the surface of and duration cannot be predicted.
    the land. As the warm, less heavy air begins to rise, it  Size and strength of a tornado is not
    meets the colder, heavier air above it. The faster determined until after damage has
    moving air begins to spin and roll over the slower occurred.
    wind. As it rolls on, it gathers pace and grow in
    size. At this stage, it is an invisible, horizontal wind Doppler Radar- instrument use to
    spinning and rolling like a cylinder. As the winds detect wind strength inside a
    continue to build up, stronger and more powerful thunderstorm.
    warm air forces the spinning winds vertically upward,
    causing an updraft. With more warm air rising, the • The Fujita-Pearson scale or also
    spinning air encounters more updraft. The winds spin known as the F scale, is used to
    faster, vertically upwards, and gains more measure the intensity of a tornado
    momentum. The spinning winds, creates a vortex and based on the amount of damage done
    the wind has enough energy to fuel itself. The tornado by a passing tornado over an area.
    is fully formed now. • The scale was introduced in 1971 and
    is named for Ted Fujita who was a
    professor at the University of Chicago.
    Characteristics Of Tornado • The deadliest
    1. Tornadoes come in many shapes & sizes. Typically
    tornado in world history ever
    in the form of funnel shape.
    recorded till date was the Daulatpur–
    2. A tornado may appear nearly transparent until Saturia tornado in Bangladesh on
    dust and debris are picked up or a cloud
    April 26, 1989, which killed
    forms within the funnel.
    approximately 1,300 people.
    3. Tornadoes are most likely to occur between 3 pm • The most record-breaking tornado in
    and 9 pm, but can occur at any time. history was the Tri-state Tornado,
    which swept three states (parts
    How do Tornadoes Rotate? of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana) on
     Most tornadoes in the March 18, 1925. It holds records for
    northern hemisphere rotate cyclonically,or longest path length (219 miles,
    counter-clockwise. Only around five 352 km), longest duration (about
    percent of tornadoes in the northern 3.5 hours), and fastest forward speed
    hemisphere rotate clockwise, or anti- for a significant tornado (73 mph,
    cyclonically. In the southern hemisphere, 117 km/h).
    however, most tornadoes rotate clockwise.
    How To Survive a Tornado
    Where do tornadoes occur? 1. Move immediately to an
     Tornadoes can occur almost anywhere in the underground shelter whenever
    world, but the United States is the country with possible.
    the highest frequency of tornadoes. 2. Stay away from windows, and cover
     Tornadoes strike predominantly along Tornado yourself with a mattress, cushions, or
    Alley — a flat stretch of land from western sleeping bags.
    Texas to North Dakota. 3. If possible, get under a heavy table,
     Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa which can protect you from falling
    and southern Minnesota are particularly debris.
    prone to tornadoes. 4. Find a low spot relative to your
    current position if caught totally in the
    TYPES OF TORNADOES open.
    5. Stay away from overpasses,
    1. Multiple Vortex Tornadoes- has two or more bridges, or areas with potential for lots
    funnels of clouds (vortex) rotating around a of debris.
    common centre. 6. Put together a tornado emergency
    2. Waterspout- a column of spinning wind that kit and stash it in your safe room
    forms downward from a cumulus cloud down to
    any body of water.
    3. LAND SPOUT -are characterized by a rotating Prepared by:
    column of air contacting both the ground and a Sagales, Marisol T.
    cumuliform cloud. BEED-3rd Year
    4. Fire whirls – “fire tornado”
    - Made up of flame or ashes

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