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    out the temperature of water does affect the width of a tornado’s eye! At first I thought if I use warm water, then width of the tornado’s eye will get bigger. Then, after a lot of research, I found out I was right. The eye is the very center of a tornado. The eye is the point around which the strongest winds spiral and twist. Did you know it is actually calm inside the eye? There may be a few clouds and a gentle breeze. Some people have seen the inside of a tornado’s eye. They say that when…

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    Fire Tornado Lab

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    Introduction A flam e tornado is pretty self-explanatory, it is just a flame being spun in circles{explain how fire tornados are created and what they are, maybe talk about them in the real world}The fire tornado works by “the rotating screen [giving] the air molecules an initial spin (called angular momentum or rotational momentum). The rotating air molecules collide with the hot air rising from the fire and the flame twists into the shape of a tornado” (“Steve”). Fire tornados actually happen…

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    A few days ago on March 18th, 1925 at 1:00pm deadly tornado called ‘tri-state tornado’ touched down in southeast Missouri and moved northeast toward Illinois then ended in Indiana. There wasn’t much warning before the tornado happened. To prevent panic among the public, tornado forecasting was not practiced and even the word “tornado” is banned. The storm moved quickly to the northeast, speeding thorough Missouri the towns effected were Gibson, Pike and Posey in Indiana, Bollinger, Iron, Madison…

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    people lost their lives. The outbreak caused an estimated $595 million in damages. The U.S.A. is home to 75% of the world’s tornadoes, with about 800 per year. Of these, many happen in the stretch from the Midwest to the Great Lakes, nicknamed Tornado Alley. Tornadoes cause about 60 deaths yearly, and cause millions of dollars of damage. “Over the 14 years from 2000 to 2013, U.S. insurers paid almost 9 million claims for hail losses, totaling more than $54 billion” according to Verisk…

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    Thousands of tornadoes have ripped through the United States over recent history. The EF5 tornado that occurred in Joplin, Missouri happens to be the most expensive tornado on record. Tornadoes occur during some severe thunderstorms; winds spiral horizontally, then turn vertically, a funnel cloud forms which ends up reaching the ground, which is the tornado. Some tornadoes can be minor while others can cause dozens of deaths and millions, if not billions, of dollars in damage. Winds can reach…

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    Introduction Rotating funnel-shaped clouds that can leave a mile wide damage path that can grow to fifty miles long (Tornado Facts and History). From May to early June, warnings and watches are put out to protect people from these powerful forces of nature. Understanding how they form and what to look for before one touches down can save the lives of many people. Looking into history, past tragic events can help future ones to be less tragic. The scale rating these tornadoes can show just how…

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    extensive course design that can frame in a supercell thunderstorm.And a dust fallen angel structures close to the surface ascents rapidly and through a cooler pocket streams weight and as the air rises. also, thats. how a flame tornado and a dust fiend structure. What was it fire tornado The second article I picked spoke the truth a waterspout. A waterspout simply shaped in lake michigan. At the point when on a monday evening on August,17 2015. Who arrived it picture taker John Gee at 8:32 pm…

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    tornado, dark, funnel-shaped cloud containing violently rotating air that develops below a heavy cumulonimbus cloud mass and extends toward the earth. The funnel twists about, rises and falls, and where it reaches the earth causes great destruction. The diameter of a tornado varies from a few feet to a mile; the rotating winds may attain velocities of 200 to 300 mi (320–480 km) per hr, and the updraft at the center may reach 200 mi per hr. The Enhanced Fujita scale is the standard scale for…

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    the blasting, whistling tornado. The tornado was exceptionally tall, and thick, reminding me of a nuclear mushroom cloud. The tornado literally reached up into the stormy clouds. Some of the dust that went along with the tornado went into my eyes, so, I had to look down, onto the dusty, shaking, landscape. The ground seemed like it had a jet black shadow blanket, because of how dark it was. The ground was extremely flat, and was also dusty, and sandy, just like the tornado. After what seemed…

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    April 27, 2011 a major tornado struck down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama killing fifty-two people. This tornado was classified as an EF4 with winds reaching up to 190 miles per hour. The damage of this disaster impacted everyone in the community of over 80,000. “Many public facilities were damaged or destroyed including two elementary schools, a nursing home, a fire station, and the city’s emergency operation center” (Rush, S. C., Houser, R., & Partridge, A. 2015). Commercial property was also…

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