Tornadoes

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Tornadoes

• By Sydney Potter

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What is a Tornado

• A Tornado is a violently destructive
  windstorm occurring over land
• characterized by a funnel-shaped
• cloud extending
• 
  toward the
• 
  ground.

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Lets talk about tornadoes

• Every year about a
• thousand tornadoes touch
• down in the US
• Tornadoes occur inside intense
• thunderstorms
• Tornadoes usually move from
• The southwest to the northeast

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Signs that a tornado could be coming

• Sickly greenish or
  greenish black color
• in the sky
• If a watch or
  warning is posted then hail
• may fall
• A strange quiet occurs within or
  shortly
• after the
  thunderstorm
• Clouds moving by very
  fast, especially
• in a rotating
  pattern or converging
• toward one area
  in the sky
• The tornado may
  sound like a railroad
• train or a
  airplane jet
• An obvious funnel
  shaped cloud that is
• rotating
  

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Safety

• One of the most important things you can do to
  prevent from being injured during a tornado is to
  be alert to the onset of severe weather
• Go to a basement, closet or bathroom of your
  house, school or work
• If outside
  during a tornado, lay down
• in a ditch
  or a depression in the
• ground
• Crouch to a
  ball and put hands over
• head to
  prevent from debris hitting
• you

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A tornado watch means that a tornado has been
spotted?

• TRUE
• FALSE

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Sorry, try again

• A tornado warning is when a tornado has been
  spotted

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You are right!!!!!!!

• A tornado watch is when a tornado is possible for
  the weather conditions

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Roof shingles are the first thing to go during a
tornado?

• TRUE
• FALSE

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Sorry
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Correct!!!!!!
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Biography

• I was born in Jackson, Mi on Feb 27, 1983 I am
  also the youngest of five children and am named
  after my Dad. I attended catholic schools for 13
  years. After that I attended Kalamazoo Valley
  Community College for two years on a volleyball
  scholarship. I am currently now studying special
  education at Western Michigan University. I have
  been in five pre-intern settings and have learned
  a great deal from my experiences. I am extremely
  excited about my internship and absolutely cannot
  wait to graduate and start teaching. I am a fun,
  outgoing person who enjoys the out doors and
  hanging with her friends and family!

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BibliographyHttp//whyfiles.org/tornado/2.html
http//www.nssl.noaa.gov/headlines/dszpics.html
http//www.tornadoproject.com