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    and Tornado Essay Whoosh! There goes your house. Have you ever been in a hurricane or tornado? My advise is to try and not be in a hurricane or tornado because they're very deadly. Hurricanes and Tornados have three main points I am going to talk about is cost and damage, wind speeds, and size/characteristics. The cost of damage for a hurricane and tornado is several dollars. They can be tragic storms. They can also make every little thing into rubble. First, Tornados…

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    Tornados and hurricanes are different and alike they can be big and they can be small they can form on land or they can form on water. Hurricanes can be big or small and can range from different sizes of destruction and can be very deadly, You can’t see hurricanes because they are not visible and there is an eye of a hurricane and they are so peaceful inside the eye the hurricane is very destructive. hurricanes can form on water and they can move onto land and become weaker when they…

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    Hurricane and Tornado Essay Have you ever wondered about Hurricanes and Tornadoes? Hurricanes are a lot more destructive than tornadoes. Did you know they are both cyclonic? Cyclonic means circular. According to Meteorologist, Spencer Adkins, a hurricane can cause a tornado. By the way, a tornado can not cause a hurricane. The tornado can be in any spot of the hurricane, except for the eye. One fact about hurricanes and tornadoes would be that the appearances are very massive. To conclude…

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    swallow the world, and acid rain can strip nature of its beauty. The high swirling wind in a large rain cloud is a tornado. In order for one to comprehend and get ready for a tornado, it is essential to know how a tornado shapes, where a tornado occurs, and how one can stay before and during a tornado. To begin with, tornadoes can form in places like the Great Plains also known as the Tornado Alley. In the article, it states that when the warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico meets the cool…

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    one of nature’s deadliest storms. A tornado is a funneling cloud that spins at the speed of 300 miles per hour. A tornado can destroy whole communities and devastate families in a matter of minutes, maybe even seconds. And tornadoes are unpredictable so one cannot simply know when a tornado is coming. Tornadoes are a safety hazard to all states of America, especially now when the whole world’s weather is tipped off from global warming. Are you ready for a tornado strike?…

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    2011 Joplin Tornado Essay

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    hearts of many Missourians in Joplin. The 2011 Joplin tornado was a catastrophic EF5 multiple-vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri in the late afternoon of Sunday, May 22, 2011. “The Enhanced F-scale, or EF scale, is a set of wind estimates (not measurements) based on damage” (Enhanced Fujita Tornado Damage Scale). The Joplin tornado reached wind speeds of at least 200 mph, putting the tornado at the highest part of the scale. The tornado rapidly intensified and tracked eastward across…

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    Ef 4 Tornado Narrative

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    The first day of March in the year 2007, was a horrible day in the lives of the people in the area around Enterprise, Alabama. Through out the morning, many warnings about tornados and other severe weather were issued. About one in the afternoon the worst happened and the warnings came true. An EF 4 tornado touched down in Enterprise, Alabama and the high school was in the tornado’s path. I was listening to the radio at my home when the warning sirens went off. I took the radio, my dogs, and…

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    There's been many experiences that I have been through that many people may have not gone through. For example, the Moore tornado. Not many people can say they have been a couple blocks away from a two mile wide tornado with winds of 210 miles an hour. It was a scary experience. It was May 20th and meteorologist in Oklahoma City predicted dangerous storms capable of producing large hail and tornadoes were going to move through central Oklahoma. Everyone in the whole city of Moore was…

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    average speed of a tornado is 30 miles per hour? Well, the Tri-State Tornado traveled 70 miles per hour. The average distance of a tornado is 100 miles. It killed 695 people, and injured 2027 people. It was the most deadly tornado ever to occur, so many people remember it. The Tri-State Tornado occurred in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. (Tornadoes devastate Tupelo and Gainesville) Firstly, a tornado is a spinning vortex of wind, which can carry anything up to about 75 tons. If a tornado is in…

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    It all started when there were swirling clouds in the skies of new york city then they go on a boat to see the statue of liberty then went to a baseball game where the tornado started to form and sharks were being pulled into the tornado. He was at the beach like usual then saw a tornado forming over the ocean and blood in the water and lots of sharks started to disappear into the sky . Then the skies started to turn black and the erie smell of fish was in the air and no one knew what was going…

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