F2 Tornados: An Unpredictable

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Mother Nature can be unpredictable. When a tornado hits there is no stopping it. The damage left from it is devastating. This example of a tornado will be from an F2 tornado from 1998.

My Father was in a tornado. He was on his way to a fitness center, when he got out of the car the sky turned green. Seconds after a tornado hits. Everybody raced to the car and got out of there. “The wind was so powerful it blew me against the building.” said my dad. After the tornado, cars were flipped and houses were destroyed.

The tornado was in Liberty County, Georgia 1998. It was an F2 tornado with destructive winds. At Fort Stewart, where my dad was stationed in the army 46 buildings were damaged. There were 4 deaths and 31 injuries. The tornado terrorized

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