8th Tornadoes

Tornadoes

Objectives

• Relating the formation, characteristics and dangers of tropical cyclones

What is a tornado?

Tornado

• It can be described as a narrow funnel of powerful, rapidly whirling wind that stretches from a cloud to the ground

Multiple Choice

If a funnel of whirling air is not connecting the clouds with the ground, can be described as a tornado?

• True

• False

The tornadoes must connect the clouds to the ground

Color of tornadoes

• Tornadoes may appear transparent until dust and debris are picked up or a cloud forms within a funnel

• The color of tornadoes can change depending on the particles that it carries within

Movement of tornadoes

• Tornadoes move randomly, in any direction

Multiple Choice

Tornadoes move always from south to easth?

• True

• False

The country with most tornadoes based on landsize is the United Kingdom with

an average of 33 tornadoes each year.

The country with the gratest overall number of tornadoes and the most intense ones is The United States

with over 1000 tornadoes each year

Classification of tornadoes

• Super cell tornadoes

• Non - super cell tornadoes

• Aquatic tornadoes or waterspout

Multiple Choice

What is a tornado that forms over water called?

• Super Cell tornadoes

• Non - super cell tornadoes

• Waterspout

Formation of tornadoes

Tornado strength

• The strength of a tornado is usually measured based on the damage it produces

• One famous scale for tornadoes is the Enhanced Fujita (EF) in which the speed of the wind of the tornado is indirectly measured

Tornado safety

• The best you can do is to look for shelter inside of a windowless room on the first floor of the house or an underground room if you have it.

• Cover your head with blnakets, so you can protect from falling objects.

• Get away from mobile houses during a tornado, it's not a safe place to be

Multiple Choice

The best you can do during a tornado is:

• Look for shelter inside of a car

• Go into a room of your house

• Go to the room with more windows you can find