Extreme Weather Phenomena: Tornadoes Did you ever see the movie The Wizard of Oz? A tornado sweeps up Dorothy and Toto, sending them to a new world where there are witches and talking lions! That entire story is fiction, but tornadoes are real and they are...
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Extreme Weather Phenomena: Tornadoes Did you ever see the movie The Wizard of Oz? A tornado sweeps up Dorothy and Toto, sending them to a new world where there are witches and talking lions! That entire story is fiction, but tornadoes are real and they are serious business. In fact, they can be the most dangerous storms of all. Tornadoes are sometimes referred to as twisters or cyclones. They are violently spinning columns of air that make contact with the ground. They take the form of cylinder or funnel shaped clouds that suck up dirt and dust from the ground. The dirt they suck up mixes with the water droplets in the long funnel of the tornado. This gives the twister its dark color. Destructive Force It’s not just dirt that tornadoes lift up. They will suck up nearly anything in their path. Winds in the funnel can be so strong they can whisk away cars, people, animals, and even buildings. Yet because of how quickly winds vary in and across the tornado, the destruction can seem totall
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