Weather: Tornadoes

Information on how tornadoes are formed, classified, where they most commonly appear and what to do if you find out one is approaching.

Fierce, whirling winds make tornadoes the most powerful storms on Earth. Twisters can strike at any time or any place around the world. Without warning, they can wipe out entire towns in a matter of minutes. In this book, you’ll see why tornadoes are totally twisted, how they happen, what damage they cause, and how to stay safe from one!

Discusses famous storms and presents information on how tornados form, how scientists predict them, and how to prepare for them.

Describes the location, nature, development, measurement, and destructive effects of tornadoes, as well as how to stay out of danger from them.

Describes how and why tornadoes happen, the damage they can cause, and some of the most destructive tornadoes of the past.

Describes what a tornado is, where they can occur, how they are formed, how they are measured, safety drills and going to storm shelters.

Describes how tornados form and are measured, and presents stories of tornados occurring in the United States and Canada, including the night of twenty tornadoes in Oklahoma City.

Describes the origin and nature of tornadoes and how to stay safe when threatened by one of these dangerous storms.

Students will study both tornadoes and hurricanes from their early beginnings to the full-blown storms that wreak havoc on land. The program shows how meteorologists use data such as location, movement, wind speed, temperature and pir pressure to predict the course of these storms and provide early warnings to people living in their path.