Tornadoes

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by Ayanna Bynum3 views·Updated Dec 23, 2021
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  1. Hi everyone for my presentation, I'm going to do a presentation on tornadoes.
  2. The different topics that I will be talking about is the history about tornadoes.
  3. Information about tornadoes.
  4. Where to go during a tornado, a tornado that took place on December 10 11
  5. 2021.
  6. And how can a tornado be to some people?
  7. And then the references of where I got my information?
  8. Mhm.
  9. In the first flight, it's the history about tornadoes in 1925.
  10. The most extreme tornado in history was the tri state tornado.
  11. This tornado came through Missouri Illinois
  12. On March 18,. It was the longest record for being the longest tornado in history.
  13. The length of this tornado was 219 miles. The duration of this tornado,
  14. It was about 3.5 hours and
  15. during this tornado it was traveling at a significant speed,
  16. going 73
  17. MPH.
  18. And for more information about that tornado, you can visit this website right here,
  19. tornado records
  20. in 1970 for the super outbreak,
  21. tornado took place across central United States and southern
  22. Canada on april 3rd and april 4th 1974.
  23. During the peak of this outbreak,
  24. there were 16 other tornadoes that touched ground at the same time
  25. In this outbreak, more than 300 people,
  26. maybe even 3:30 were killed by this horrifying tornado that took place in
  27. the super outbreak.
  28. The next slide that you're going to see
  29. is the slide
  30. about information about tornadoes.
  31. A tornado is a very narrow column of air that can
  32. be extended from a thunderstorm to the ground in minutes.
  33. A form of the tornado is
  34. the condensation funnel that is made up of droplets of water and dust. Derbies.
  35. And for more information about the basics of a tornado.
  36. You can visit this website right here. Tornado basics
  37. tornado season usually occurs between May and june.
  38. However, with the climate change, we are starting to see more
  39. more tornadoes until the month of december.
  40. The next slide you will see is pictures
  41. from the tri state tornado that took place March
  42. In 1925.
  43. And then at the bottom of that is a short video of
  44. the tri state tornado and to the right side of that,
  45. you see pictures from tornadoes that have ripped
  46. through different communities in the past years.
  47. I'm gonna show you a short video of the tornado that took place March 18th, 1925.
  48. The tri state tornado
  49. out the knowledge we have today knowledge became from studying film video.
  50. Living through a tornado was very difficult.
  51. Mhm.
  52. Mhm.
  53. There were no home movie cameras in 1925,
  54. we can only imagine what the tri state tornado looked like,
  55. but we know it was terrifying
  56. and we know it did not look like a tornado.
  57. It was a mile wide wrapped in dust.
  58. It killed nearly 700 people in three states.
  59. It began north northwest of Ellington Missouri
  60. at about one o'clock in the afternoon.
  61. Its forward speed an average of 62
  62. MPH.
  63. 11 people were killed before it crossed the Mississippi River into Illinois
  64. in southern Illinois, 613 died
  65. after devastating Murphy's burrow and after devastating west Frankfurt,
  66. the tri state tornado killed 30 farm owner
  67. swept away farm after farm across southeast Illinois.
  68. You see it's very rare to have the farm owner
  69. killed by a tornado. A lot of people have died in rural areas,
  70. but very few
  71. Here is an image of a tornado that has touched down.
  72. This is what it looks like on March 1925.
  73. Yeah,
  74. the next slide is gonna give you some information
  75. about where to go to during a tornado.
  76. During a tornado.
  77. You want to seek shelter in the lowest part of your home, such as a basement,
  78. make sure that you are in a room with no windows,
  79. voice with wide span roofs such as auditoriums
  80. and cafeterias and gymnasiums and large hallways.
  81. If you are in a vehicle, tried to turn around from the direction that the tornado
  82. is coming,
  83. get out of the vehicle immediately and take
  84. shelter and get into the nearby building.
  85. The next slide that's being shown is the tornado that took
  86. place December 10 through the 11th 2021 on December 10.
  87. A horrifying twister came through 10 states right before winter.
  88. This tornado tornado nearly destroyed May feather Kentucky
  89. and currently eight people are dead. More than
  90. 100 survivors.
  91. This horrifying moment that has taken place for the community of Kentucky.
  92. For more information about that tornado, you can visit this website right here.
  93. Stories and scientists from the devastating
  94. Tornado that took place on December 10 and the 11th.
  95. They only had a 22 minute warning.
  96. The tornado that came through May,
  97. Mayfield
  98. was going 90 miles
  99. north of Mayfield
  100. 100 years ago.
  101. We talked about the longest tornado that was shown in
  102. the spring of 1925 was the tri state tornado.
  103. This tornado nearly cared about 700 people.
  104. This happened on a 73 73° day weather in December
  105. And for more information about these three different subjects that I talked about.
  106. You can visit Tornado Records 2021 December 17
  107. or you can go to tornado basics to learn more about tornadoes
  108. and then stories and scientists from
  109. This devastating tornado that took place on December 10 and 11th.
  110. Thank you.