Have you ever actually seen a tornado?
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On May 9, 2003, just a few years after the tornado hit Moore and Oklahoma City, another hit Moore in almost the same path.  The next night, a tornado hit my hometown (Bethany, OK) and ran right by my house.  I was working for a college newspaper and decided to cover the damage that night.  When I left the house and got into my car, I turned towards the tornado and saw it rip through NW OKC.  Something I hope to never see again.
76701
Yes.  I've seen them a couple times.  I think they're actually meteors entering the earth's atmosphere. (They get set on fire and you see the trail) Sometimes there are meteor showers and you can see a whole bunch of them at one time.  Watch your local newsweatherman enough and he'll let you know.
397369
http://www.bookfinder4u.com/search/Tornado.html\n\n\nyou should find it there..
1123165
Do you believe wind is real?
183885
Here is a story I told someone on here recently that wanted a laugh....it usually cracks people up. It is totally true...\n\n\nOne day, my brothers and sister in law were driving down a country road. They were behind a pick up truck for quite a while and noticed he was driving pretty slow. It was really windy out that day, so they just assumed it was an old man driving the truck and he was scared to drive fast in the wind, lol....\n\nanyway, all of the sudden a big gust of wind came and tore the plastic bed liner out of the back of the pickup truck. It goes flying up in the air and was spinning in circles all over the place. They slowed down and just watched it flying in mid air for a good 30 seconds. All of the sudden it went flying toward the ground and ended up hitting this guy on his lawn mower in the back of the head! The poor guy was just out mowing his lawn and all of the sudden something hits him from nowhere! Can you imagine what he was thinking? \n\nJust picturing the whole thing happening is hilarious.\n\nOh, by the way....long story short, the guy was ok.
431766
Most of the time, yes.  For instance, almost all tornadoes in the Northern Hemisphere are counterclockwise.  However, because of their small size, there is a small fudge factor that can allow the rare anticyclonic tornado, and these have been recorded.
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In order for a tornado to form, a number of different things have to happen. The first thing that has to happen is that you have to have two different patches of air moving toward each other from opposite directions, with a warm one on the bottom and a cool one on the top.\n\nThe next thing that happens is that the warm air rises. (You may have learned about hot air rising in school.) After the warm air goes up, the cool air comes down to take its place. So now the warm and cool patches of air are moving side to side and up and down. So they make a spinning patch of air along the ground. This is probably pretty hard to imagine, so check out the picture:\n\nUsually when a tornado is starting, it happens during a storm. So there's lots of air moving around already. If a draft of air from the storm comes along close to the ground and then moves upwards (called an "up-draft"), it will pull the spinning air upwards.\n\nNow comes the part that we don't understand quite as well. So far the spinning air is still really really wide. Somehow it gets pulled in really tight so that it makes a tornado. (Scientists aren't exactly sure why this happens sometimes but not at other times.)
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Yes, tornadoes have formed in Arizona but Arizona is not part of "Tornado Alley". How "bad" they are is really more dependant on the atmospheric conditions.\n\nYou shouldn't be too concerned though. Tornadoes are small focused events, and the chances of you receiving a direct hit from one (even in tornado alley) is pretty small.\n\nHere's a link showing tornado activity in Arizona. Most tornadoes don't mak it past F1.\n\n~X~
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Fort Worth got a tornado go straight through downtown a few years back.\n\nAccording to this map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tornado_Alley.jpg\nFort Worth, Oklahoma City and Tulsa have the highest number of tornadoes observed, with a wide band across the states from Illinois to the DFW area being the "Tornado Alley"\n\nNote that hurricanes near populated areas are more likely to be observed, which accounts for the island style distribution.
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try this site http://www.howstuffworks.com/tornado.htm
53812
Yes..I have seen numerous things both day and night..A massive object perhaps the size of a football field..with a smooth surface squared on all corners it was very massive and overwhelming..\nI have have witnessed a silver disc object above me in mid afternoon while fishing on my boat in the middle of the lake..it shot straight up into the sky with instant speed. Speed that we dont have here. \nAn elongated diamond light at night that turned out to have the intensity of a very bright spotlight...then dimmed again..and shot off up into the sky..with incredible speed as I had seen before with the silver disc..\nOrange glowing spheres in early evening...\nbackwards "c" shaped object in the daylight...\nthe list goes on..but..Yeah..I have seen many...Each time something does happen..it is like a new concept..it seems to keep opening the mind more and more.
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!!!!!!TORNADOES!!!!!!\n\nur siting right next 2 me hahahahaha!!!!
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Yes..I have seen a many number of things both day and night..A massive object perhaps the size of a football field..with a smooth surface squared on all corners it was very massive and overwhelming..too big to be in the sky!! \nI have have witnessed a silver disc object above me in mid afternoon while fishing on my boat in the middle of the lake..it shot straight up into the sky with instant speed. Speed that we dont have here.\nAn elongated diamond light at night that graduated to having the intensity of a very bright spotlight...then dimming again to oginal intensity ..and shot off up into the sky..with incredible speed again...speed we dont have here.\nOrange glowing spheres in early evening...\nbackwards "c" shaped object in the daylight...\nthe list goes on..but..Yeah..I have seen many...Each time something does happen..it is like a new concept..it seems to keep opening the mind more and more..there are lots of things happening..it is not slowing down.
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Having been in the path of a direct hit by Hurricane Claudette on July 15, 2003, I have to say that I'm not so sure about hanging around for something like that again.  The house I live in made it through Hurricane Carla in 1961 packing winds (COMING ASHORE) of 165 mph.  I now figure if it's barely a hurricane of say 74-80 mph, a category one, I will probably stay.  That doesn't mean I won't be scared as hell, but something of that size going North or South of here isn't going to cause me to leave.  We were blindsided by Hurricane Claudette sneaking up the coast overnight and caught EVERYBODY "with their pants down" so to say.  That was probably the scariest thing I've ever been witness to in my 43 years on this planet.  The wind was screaming past my front door right at 100 mph.  Had I known that was on the way we would have got the hell out of here.  One tornado took out huge trees right next door, while I only had to replace about five shingles.  That tornado went right over the house while I was putting all 240 pounds of me on the front door trying to close it.  The whistling was like screaming banshees.  The wind was howling.  I mean literally howling.  It still scares me to think about it. For most of my life I wondered what it would be like to ride out a hurricane.  Now I know.  Will I leave or ride it out?  Chances are pretty good I'm outta here.  Many "old-timers" and idiots thought they could ride out another hurricane.  Many of those "old-timers" and idiots didn't make through to tell us all about it.  Don't be an idiot.  Listen to your common sense and watch the advisories.  If this message helps to save your life or someone else's, then I haven't typed this in vain.  Good luck.
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one myth could be that tornadoes occur when a small asteroid hits the atmosphere with enough rotational velocity to twist the air\n\nor that they happen when god sneezes\n\nor that there is always at least one tornado on earth at any given time
970394
No. have you ever visited the real world?
51152
Natural disaster...tornado, earthquake, etc.