1. FEMA For Kids: Disaster Connection - Kids To Kids Emergency information, stories, pictures, reports, projects, and math. http://www.fema.gov/kids/tornado.htm

Tornado Story are nature’s most violent storms. Tornadoes must always be taken seriously. Tornadoes can be very dangerous sometimes even deadly. They come from powerful thunderstorms and appear as rotating, funnel-shaped clouds. Tornado winds can reach 300 miles per hour. They cause damage when they touch down on the ground. They can damage an area one mile wide and 50 miles long. Every state is at some risk, but states in "Tornado Alley" have the highest risk. Tornadoes can form any time of the year, but the season runs from March to August. The ability to predict tornadoes is limited. Usually a community will have at least a few minutes warning. The most important thing to do is TAKE SHELTER when a tornado is nearby. Important Terms To Know: Tornado Watch Tornadoes are possible. Stay tuned to the radio or television news. Tornado Warning A tornado has been sighted. Take shelter immediately!

2. Illinois Tornados Tornado information and links with an emphasis on Illinois. http://illiniweather.com/pages/tornados.htm

var sc_project=645579; var sc_partition=5; var sc_security="4ba02ec6"; var sc_invisible=1; US Tornados by Illiniweather.com Home Tornados USA Lightning Links Severe Weather ... Financial Information Illinois Tornado links Add Illiniweather.com Illinois Tornado Page to your bookmarks. These Links are devoted primarily to pages that specialize in Illinois Related Tornado links. For US tornado info, go to the Tornados USA Page NOAA IWIN Current Illinois Weather Warnings This page only contains information when there are active severe weather warnings for the state of Illinois. Central Illinois Tornado Page Tornado tips and Central Illinois Tornado History Illinois Storm chasers If you live in Illinois and are interested in storm chasing this list is for you. The list will be for discussion of storm chasing in Illinois. Everything from the Hazardous Weather Outlook to your chase forecast. Illinois Tornado Damage The Illinois page of Disaster Center.com Lists the number of tornados, deaths, injuries, and damage costs for Illinois since by year since 1950.

3. Sky Diary KIDSTORM * Facts About Tornadoes, Lightning, Hurricanes, Storm Chasing This kids weather site offers facts, links and pictures on pages about tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes and storm chasing. It s part of Sky Diary, http://skydiary.com/kids/

home gallery data chasers ... Frequently asked questions Hello, kids and grown-ups! Click below to get information, see pictures and graphics and find links on tornadoes lightning hurricanes and storm chasing More storm links Each Kidstorm page has links to more Web sites devoted to its subject (for instance, tornadoes or lightning), but these are general severe weather links that you might find useful: Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster page for kids Thunderstorm information from the National Severe Storms Laboratory Storm Prediction Center frequently asked questions Kids Weather Pages, Illiniweather.com ... National Severe Storms Laboratory photo album get the latest data! National warnings from the Interactive Weather Information Network Severe thunderstorm and tornado ... data from the National Weather Service Try a stormy word search puzzle Kidstorm is a production of Sky Diary , Chris Kridler's site devoted to storm chasing and weather photography. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the material here, but not all sources agree on some aspects of storm science, and in the interest of simplicity, not every detail is included. Thanks to savvy folks for reviewing select Kidstorm pages to help make them better, including Jim Leonard Dave Lewison and Tom Warner Comments are welcome, but before sending storm questions, see if they are answered on the Kidstorm pages or on the other sites linked from each page.

4. TORNADOES: Images Of 32 Different Shapes, Sizes And Colors Pictures and information about thirytwo different shapes, sizes, and colors of tornadoes. http://www.chaseday.com/tornadoes.htm

Tornadoes - Many Are Different From What Dorothy Saw The Wedge Tornado Typical "wedge tornado" is straight on the sides not funnel shaped and has a wide damage path. It's usually as wide, or wider than it is tall. These monsters are not necessarily stronger than funnels or other shaped tornadoes, but they do cover much more ground. This particular tornado was hanging out the west side of a supercell thunderstorm in the Texas Panhandle. The vehicle in the foreground is an NSSL chase vehicle doing its job long before books and movies told about chasing storms. In those days there was little glory just long days and tiring drives home while Oklahoma City DJ's played requested songs for the returning chasers. Occasionally, there was big reward like on this day. Shortly after this photo was taken this tornado tore through a small Texas town. Residents saw it coming and were under ground, or in a safe shelter. This was the first in a series of tornadoes to strike the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma that day. Another Wedge Tornado With A Different Appearance This tornado lacks the typical funnel or classic tornadic appearance. Huge funnels like this one that are a mile wide are sometimes unrecognizable at close range as a tornado. They lack the classic narrow funnel appearance, but tend to appear as a boiling wall of fog approaching from out of nowhere, since they favor a position close to the rain wall. Generally the rain stops and the tornado makes a rapid appearance. These storms are the ones that are generally blamed for "striking without warning" since some people try to observe the tornado before taking shelter. Funnels of this character are more common in the southeastern quarter of the nation where moisture from the Gulf of Mexico is thick and cloud bases are low. That said, this one was in the Texas Panhandle and they can form anywhere in the plains when conditions are ripe.

5. May 3rd 1999 Central OK Tornadoes A comprehensive collection of links of the best of May 3rd sites. Both on the meteorological and human side. http://members.tripod.com/~thunder_listener/may3.html

May 3rd 1999 Central OK Tornadoes 3 May 2000 Tornado Sketch by Cheryl-Ann Tan If you want to put this pic on your site, please send e-mail It's one year since the devastating outbreak. The Weather Signposts presents a collection of links on the web with a touch of humanity on the tragic outbreak. The outbreak, the lessons learned, the victims... will not be forgotten. This outbreak was, in a way, one that has left the deepest impression on me. It was the first "really big one" that I had ever heard of while I existed on this planet. I read everything on the event that I could get my hands on for almost a year. Never did I realize that there was so much to a single outbreak. Like many, I tend to see such events as tests and lessons for people. There is a recent song which contained a line, "lessons learned and they sure run deep... don't come easy and they don't come cheap." This one wasn't cheap. In case you're new to the weather world, the Oklahoma City/Moore tornado in the May 3rd outbreak was the USA's first billion-dollar tornado. Shoddy building structures, forecasts and forecasters, warnings, precautions taken by the public... were all put to the test. Chase accounts Lets start here with chase logs... after all, they are the war stories from the front lines. If you haven't start looking over the links, I suggest you do that now. There isn't much else for me to say since I wasn't there myself... so I shall only make this more of compilation of links and my thoughts.

6. TORNADOES Images Of 32 Different Shapes, Sizes And Colors Pictures and information about thirytwo different shapes, sizes, and colors of tornadoes. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

7. The Fujita Scale Of Tornado Intensity pie chart showing percent of all tornadoes by Fujita Scale class. The Percentage of All tornadoes 19501994 pie chart reveals that the vast majority of http://www.tornadoproject.com/fscale/fscale.htm

The Fujita Scale is used to rate the intensity of a tornado by examining the damage caused by the tornado after it has passed over a man-made structure. T he "Percentage of All Tornadoes 1950-1994" pie chart reveals that the vast majority of tornadoes are either weak or do damage that can only be attributed to a weak tornado. Only a small percentage of tornadoes can be correctly classed as violent. Such a chart became possible only after the acceptance of the Fujita Scale as the official classification system for tornado damage. It is quite possible that an even higher percentage of all tornadoes are weak. Each year the National Weather Service documents about 1000 tornado touchdowns in the United States. There is evidence that 1000 or more additional weak tornadoes may occur each year and go completely undocumented. T he "Percentage of Tornado-Related Deaths 1950-1994" pie chart shows that while violent tornadoes are few in number, they cause a very high percentage of tornado-related deaths. The Tornado Project has analyzed data prior to 1950, and found that the percentage of deaths from violent tornadoes was even greater in the past. This is because the death tolls prior to the introduction of the forecasting/awareness programs were enormous: 695 dead(Missouri-Illinois-Indiana, March 18, 1925); 317 dead(Natchez, Mississippi, May 7, 1840);.255 dead(St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois, May 27, 1896); 216 dead(Tupelo, Mississippi, April 5, 1936); 203 dead(Gainesville, GA, April 6, 1936). In more recent times, no single tornado has killed more than 50 people since 1971.

8. Tornadoes In Austria - Tornados In Österreich Research information with maps, statistics, photos and link collection. http://www.tordach.org/at/

TorDACH - Kompetenzzentrum für lokale Unwetter in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz Tornados in Österreich TorDACH - Center of competence for severe local storms in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

9. Tornadoes Nature's Most Violent Windstorm tornadoes Take Many http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

10. NOAA Home Page - Tornadoes picture of a tornado tornadoes are one of nature s most violent storms. In an average year, about 1000 tornadoes are reported across the United States, http://www.noaa.gov/tornadoes.html

Mon September 26 2005 Home Contacts Media Search ... People Locator Home Page Menu Air Quality Aviation Charts Climate Coasts Contacts Diving Drought Fire Weather Fisheries Floods Hurricanes Jobs Lightning Meet the Administrator Navigation Ocean NOAA Leadership Past Weather Podcast Question of the Month Research RSS Satellites Search this site Site Map Solar and Space Storm Watch Tornadoes Tsunamis Turtles Volcanoes Weather Weather Data Whales Weather Page Fujita Tornado Damage Scale Category F0: Category F1: Moderate Damage (73-112 mph); Peels surface off roofs; mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned; moving autos blown off road. Category F2: Considerable Damage (113-157 mph); Roofs torn off frame houses; mobile homes demolished; boxcars overturned; large trees snapped or uprooted; light-object missiles generated; cars lifted off ground. Category F3: Severe Damage (158- 206 mph); Roofs and some walls torn off well-constructed houses, trains overturned; most trees in forest uprooted; heavy cars lifted off ground and thrown.

11. Homepage Of The Dutch Storm Chase Team Storm chasing in the Netherlands. Tips and tricks about chasing, and information about lightning, tornadoes and thunderstorms. http://www.stormchasing.nl/

Team Floris Bijlsma Herman Harperink Calendar ... Contact DUTCH STORM CHASE TEAM Home The Dutch Storm Chase Team welcomes you to this internet site! DSCT consists of two enthusiastic stormchasers, living in The Netherlands. You can read all about our adventures here - stories, photos, and general information about chasing and the severe weather environment. More questions? Feel free to ask... we are dedicated severe-weather lovers, and stormchasing is our hobby. We hope you will enjoy our site.. and see you later, maybe.... who knows where we might end up stormchasing! The Dutch Storm Chase Team View the adventures DSCT had on the great plains this spring! Click image No part of this site may be copied, redistributed or otherwise used without the explicit, written consent of DSCT. Direct questions to info@stormchasing.nl Our Sponsors: meteoplaza.com

12. National Severe Storms Laboratory Radar Satellite Software Development Modeling tornadoes Thunderstorms Damaging Winds Lightning Hail Winter Weather Flooding http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

13. Tornado Fast Facts The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of 250 mph In an average year, 800 tornadoes are reported nationwide. http://www.noaa.gov/tornadofaqs.html

Q. What is a tornado? A. A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of 250 mph or more. Damage paths can be in excess of one mile wide and 50 miles long. In an average year, 800 tornadoes are reported nationwide. Q. How do tornadoes form? A. Before thunderstorms develop, a change in wind direction and an increase in wind speed with increasing height creates an invisible, horizontal spinning effect in the lower atmosphere. Rising air within the thunderstorm updraft tilts the rotating air from horizontal to vertical. An area of rotation, 2-6 miles wide, now extends through much of the storm. Most strong and violent tornadoes form within this area of strong rotation. Q. Are there different kinds of tornadoes? A. Some tornadoes may form during the early stages of rapidly developing thunderstorms. This type or tornado is most common along the front range of the Rocky Mountains, the Plains and the western states. Tornadoes may appear nearly transparent until dust and debris are picked up. Occasionally, two or more tornadoes may occur at the same time. Waterspouts are weak tornadoes that form over warm water. Waterspouts are most common along the Gulf Coast and southeastern states. In the western United States, they occur with cold late-fall or late-winter storms, during a time when you least expect tornado development. Waterspouts occasionally move inland, becoming tornadoes causing damage and injuries.

14. The Tornado Project Online! tornadoes in Other Countries http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

15. CNN - Tornadoes, Severe Storms Rake Parts Of Tennessee; At Least 9 Dead - Januar CNN http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9901/18/tornado.01/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD ASIANOW U.S. ... news quiz CNN WEB SITES: TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW MORE SERVICES: video on demand video archive audio on demand news email services ... pagenet DISCUSSION: message boards chat feedback SITE GUIDES: help contents search FASTER ACCESS: europe japan WEB SERVICES: Tornadoes, severe storms rake parts of Tennessee; at least 9 dead January 18, 1999 Web posted at: 2:49 a.m. EST (0749 GMT) NASHVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) At least nine people were killed and 60 hurt as tornadoes and severe storms raced across middle and west Tennessee on Sunday, bringing damaging winds, hail and rain. Power outages were reported in many areas as high winds damaged homes and snapped tree limbs and power lines. Madison County was the hardest hit area with five people confirmed dead and at least another five who are still missing, said Kurt Pickering of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. One person has also been confirmed dead in Henderson County. At least 35 people have been treated for minor injuries at the Jackson-Madison County General Hospital, and 11 are in critical condition, according to Jack Rudnick Jr., the Vice President of West Tennessee Healthcare. Most of the minor injuries consisted of scratches, cuts and bruises where patients were treated and realesed over a four and a half hour period, said Rudnick. The storm moved across the state at about 50 mph, National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Moser said. It reached Nashville at about 8:30 p.m. CST and dissipated as it headed east.

16. The Online Tornado FAQ (by Roger Edwards, SPC) Roger Edwards of the Storm Prediction Center presents basic Frequently Asked Questions and the answers about tornadoes. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

17. TORNADO CHASE DAY INDEX PAGE: A Site For Tornado Chasers, Weather Photographers Tornado Chase Day is a weather photography stock image site. It includes images and stories about tornadoes and weather subjects. http://www.chaseday.com/chaseday5.htm

C H A S E D A Y An image site for tornado chasers, weather photographers, sky lovers and dreamers Chase partner Mike Watts stands in the foreground at the south edge of the Badlands. He's filming a supercell and developing tornado to our south. The weather where I live 2000 Guinness World Record Holder Most Tornadoes This large tornado NW of Jayton Tx is part of the new season material I'm working on. I'll be getting it posted in the coming week Images and text Gene Moore unless otherwise indicated Designed for 1024 X 768 - 32 bit "full color" viewing - for 800 X 600 reduce font size at the view tab Stock Weather Image Sales by Gene Moore 2004 Storm Season a collection of images Attica Kansas Tornado Dramatic Harper KS night tornado Tulia TX merging supercells Freeport - Argonia KS tornadoes ... Conway Springs KS tornado and the three simultaneous tornadoes after dark Sharon KS tornado N'rn Iowa Tornadoes 24 June 2003 SD Outbreak the last page Spirit Lake finally completed select storm days from previous years Things that go bump in the night......on a scary Kansas night.

18. Weird Weather Records anecdotal stories about hurricanes, fires, extreme temperatures, tornadoes, flooding, droughts and other weather related phenomena. http://gardenearth.com/weirdwea.html

19. Storm Prediction Center Monitor the number of tornadoes during the year compare to normal and other years at www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/torn/monthlytorn. .. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

20. 1. Story Map tornadoes kill 60 Americans each year. How do we predict tornadoes? How do we make houses safer? Where do tornadoes get their energy? http://whyfiles.org/013tornado/

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