Facts About Tornadoes
- Tornadoes can strike quickly with barely any warnings at all.
- Tornadoes can travel with hurricanes and tropical storms to land.
- the average speed of a tornado is usually 30 miles per hour
- Sometimes they can travel up to 70 miles.
- The strongest tornadoes happen in the u.S
- Tornadoes are reported in every state and season in the u.S
- the chances of a tornado being an f5 is less than 0.1% (f5 being the highest)
- normal tornadoes last for a few minutes
- small tornadoes typically form on the edge of bigger ones
- the United Kingdom gets 60 tornadoes a year.
- dust devils are tornadoes that pass over desert areas
- in ancient times, people thought dust devils were ghosts
- tornado is from the spanish word, tronada, meaning thunderstorm