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Tornados Summary
22,957 words, approx. 77 pages
 On April 3, 1974, a tornado, a half mile wide, slammed into Xenia, Ohio. Railroad cars of a freight train passing through town were thrown across streets. The tornado smashed homes and businesses. It also demolished Central High School, just an hour...
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Tornado Summary
1,946 words, approx. 7 pages A tornado is a rapidly spinning column of air formed in severe thunderstorms. The rotating column, or vortex, forms inside the storm cloud and grows downward until it touches the ground. Although a tornado is not as large as its parent thunderstorm, it...
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Tornado Information
9,791 words, approx. 33 pages
 A tornado is a violently rotating column of air which is in contact with both a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, a cumulus cloud base and the surface of the earth. Tornadoes come in many sizes but are typically in the form of a visible condensation...



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Tornado Quotes
849 words, approx. 3 pages
 A tornado is a violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a funnel cloud. Sourced == A single experience of this awful...




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Tornadoes.
10/29/1999: 1,195 words, approx. 4 pages What happens during a thunderstorm? Clouds darken, thunder rumbles, and lightning flashes. Sometimes hail as big as golf balls falls from the sky. During this kind of storm, one of the dark clouds might turn into a funnel. It can become a tornado....
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 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Tornadoes
07/01/2005: 2,415 words, approx. 8 pages TORNADOES Michael Allaby, 2004, 194 pp., $35.00, hardbound, Facts on File, ISBN 0-8160-4796-0 While the study of tornadic storms has always been a field of active research, it was not until the 1985 Nova presentation of Tornado! on PBS that the study of...
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 AP News
Tornado damages northwest London
12/7/2006: 378 words, approx. 1 pages A tornado Thursday ripped off a section of a wall of a northwest London house, damaged several nearby homes and injured at least six people, authorities said.A man was taken to a hospital with a head injury, and five other adults were treated at the...
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 AP-Travel Online
Downgraded Alberto Spawns Tornadoes
6/14/2006: 608 words, approx. 2 pages After splashing ashore in Florida without much punch, the remnants of the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season churned northward Wednesday, bringing much-needed rain to the Southeast but also spawning damaging tornadoes. By early Wednesday, Alberto had weakened...



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Tornadoes
1,337 words, approx. 5 pages
 An informative essay describing the various aspects of tornadoes.


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