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Tearing tornadoes
Tornadoes are violent storms that can
blow away people, animals, cars, and
even buildings with fast and furious
winds. Injuries and deaths are mostly
a result of flying debris. The spinning
winds of tornadoes can reach speeds of
400 kilometres per hour.
The Tri-state Tornado, US, 1925 The Great Tri-state Tornado caused huge
destruction in the US.
At 1 p.m. on 18 March, 1925, a column of
twisting air was formed near the town of Ellington
in Missouri, killing a farmer. Soon it turned
into the deadliest tornado in American history,
whipping through the three states of Missouri,
Illinois, and Indiana. High-speed winds were
accompanied by hail the size of golf balls. The
air was churning with roofs, tree branches, fences,
boards, utensils, and other debris.
Impact …
At the end of the three and Did you know?
a half hours of the tornado’s
assault, 695 people were About a thousand tornadoes occur in the
dead and thousands injured. US every year. ‘Tornado alley’, an area
The word ‘tornado’ was covering South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas,
banned in the US weather Oklahoma, northern Texas, and eastern
forecasts since 1887. It was Colorado, experiences the most powerful and
considered futile to study
or forecast tornadoes due to destructive of these storms.
their unpredictability. Thus,
to avoid spreading panic, This is my alley!
there were no warnings that
a tornado was about to occur.
In the absence of effective
warning systems, people were
caught by surprise and had no
time to take cover, resulting
in higher deaths and injuries.
Fifteen thousand homes were
demolished, with some towns
flattened out completely.
TICKER The average warning time for a tornado is thirteen minutes.
Tornadoes are violent storms that can
blow away people, animals, cars, and
even buildings with fast and furious
winds. Injuries and deaths are mostly
a result of flying debris. The spinning
winds of tornadoes can reach speeds of
400 kilometres per hour.
The Tri-state Tornado, US, 1925 The Great Tri-state Tornado caused huge
destruction in the US.
At 1 p.m. on 18 March, 1925, a column of
twisting air was formed near the town of Ellington
in Missouri, killing a farmer. Soon it turned
into the deadliest tornado in American history,
whipping through the three states of Missouri,
Illinois, and Indiana. High-speed winds were
accompanied by hail the size of golf balls. The
air was churning with roofs, tree branches, fences,
boards, utensils, and other debris.
Impact …
At the end of the three and Did you know?
a half hours of the tornado’s
assault, 695 people were About a thousand tornadoes occur in the
dead and thousands injured. US every year. ‘Tornado alley’, an area
The word ‘tornado’ was covering South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas,
banned in the US weather Oklahoma, northern Texas, and eastern
forecasts since 1887. It was Colorado, experiences the most powerful and
considered futile to study
or forecast tornadoes due to destructive of these storms.
their unpredictability. Thus,
to avoid spreading panic, This is my alley!
there were no warnings that
a tornado was about to occur.
In the absence of effective
warning systems, people were
caught by surprise and had no
time to take cover, resulting
in higher deaths and injuries.
Fifteen thousand homes were
demolished, with some towns
flattened out completely.
TICKER The average warning time for a tornado is thirteen minutes.
