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Tornadoes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjjwPQRVbWk&feature=related 1. The Beginning-Tornadoes develop from thunderstorms. The stronger the thunderstorm, the more likely it will produce a tornado. Wild winds develop deep within the cumulonimbus clouds where warm, moist air meets cool dry air moving in the opposite direction, and is forced to rise. 2. Spinning out-The updrafts in a big cumulonimbus cloud cause the warm air to continue to spin. The water droplets in these clouds are pushed around and around by the rapidly twisting winds. This creates a funnel cloud. 3. On the Move!-The funnel cloud of spinning air (a vortex) drops down out of the thunderstorm. It drops through the cloud base towards the ground creating a spiraling column of air-a tornado! A tornado is a low pressure area and acts like a vacuum sucking up whatever is it its path! Tornadoes are also associated with severe lightning and hail. If a tornado needs warm, moist air to keep it growing, what do you think will make it stop? ______________________________________ Property Damage-When the speed of the wind lowers the air pressure on the outside surface of a house, the air pressure inside stays the same. What is going to happen? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Tornado Ally-Most tornadoes occur on the plains of central North America during spring and summer. This is a time when warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico meets cold, dry air from the Rockies, creating ideal conditions for the formation of Tornadoes. Draw in the different air masses. If air is invisible, then why can we see tornados? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Waterspouts are spinning funnels of air that can pull up water from a lake or sea to heights of up to 2,952 feet!