With tornadoes, it is impossible to forecast the time and location of a tornado, so that wheather conditions that may form tornadoes develop, general warnings are sent. The Torro scale, is a tornado intensity scale. Torro 1 is mild, Torro 12 is a super tornado. Even steel-reinforced buildings can be seriously damaged in a super tornado.
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| This tornado killed two people. |
There is also the scale Fujita. F5 is the severest tornado in this scale.
Tornadoes suck up anything in their path, including cars, trees, and buildings. When the tornadoes fade, whatever they sucked up comes down. This could be the source of strange "rain"... like frogs falling. When a tornado passes over water, it can suck up small fish and frogs, later dropping them.
A tornado, if it forms over water, is called a waterspout. When these tornadoes touch the water, water is sucked up into the spinning wind.
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| Yazoo City Tornado |
Interesting fact: The air pressure in the center of a tornado is way less than normal air pressure... so buildings may explode as air inside bursts out to the low pressure.
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| from teacher.scholastic.com |
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