Rohit

__**Researching Tornadoes **__ __**By: Rohit Siddabattula **__

__**Hi, my name is Rohit and I go to a school called[| MICDS] in [|St. Louis Missouri]. You're probably thinking why I'm doing this? Well I'm here to tell you about how tornadoes impact our life. I would like to cover about the, science behind tornadoes, a historical event, a power point on tornadoes, and a current event about a tornado that hit Alabama. I hope you are going to like the things coming up.**__

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__**The Historical Event **__ **__On March 18, 1925 a [|super cell] was forming. This was going to be the deadliest tornadoes ever formed in the United States and it was to be called the [|Tri-State Tornado]. There were 9 tornadoes roaring across southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwestern Indiana.These tornadoes caused about 1,000 deaths and about 3,000 people were injured.__**

**__During the tornado some people got prepared by getting their emergency kit and listening to their radio. When people saw dark, greenish sky and large hail it was a sign of a tornado. When the tornadoes where roaring across the farmland, some people couldn't see the [|funnel cloud] so they got picked up by the tornado. Some things that people do differently today__** **__is that__** ** __people watch TV more often when a storm starts and if there is a tornado, people immediately go to there basement instead of standing outside and watching i____t. Farmers also go into there basement if a storm is forming instead of still working outside.__ **



 The Natural Disaster Current Event

__**Rohit Siddabattula**__ __**2-15-12**__ __**5B-2**__

__**“Severe Weather Rakes Southeast”**__ __**1-23-2012**__ []
 * __CNN Wire Staff__**

__**A tornado struck the area near Birmingham, Alabama on January 23 at 3:30 a.m. The tornado caused about 100 injuries and 2 fatalities. The tornado was an EF-3 which had wind speed up to 150 mphs. During the tornado people hid in their basements and hoped for the best. One family saw their front door fly past them. After the tornado, people were terrified about the damage and all the destruction of their houses. Some of the major results were that there was a lot of damage like at least 211 homes were damaged. Some organizations like the Salvation Army and the Red Cross helped to get food, clothes, water, and other things.**__

__**Two interesting facts I learned were that there was 178 tornadoes in the area of Birmingham which was a record breaking outbreak last year.The next fact I learned was that during the tornado in Birmingham there were other tornadoes in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee at the same time.**__

__**This article relates to science. The scientist at the national weather station had instrument that rate tornadoes on the Fujita scale and the beaufort scale. People learn about tornados watching TV broadcasts and follow suggested ways to be safe if and when they run into a tornado.**__


 * __ Thank you: __**


 * http://www.micds.org/default.aspx
 * http://stlouis-mo.gov/
 * http://www.weatherforecastmap.com/buscar.phtml
 * http://www.weatherlink.com/user/micds/
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercell
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Tornado
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_cloud
 * Funnel of Death By: Van Biema, David, Hylton, Hilary, Time, 0040781X, 05/17/99, Vol. 153, Issue 19
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