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<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Hello, my name is Hope, I am a 5th grader at [|MICDS] and I live in [|St. Louis], Missouri. I am creating this wiki page to learn all kinds of facts and details about tornadoes, and most importantly, how tornadoes impact our lives. Tornadoes are the most deadly windstorms. They go by many names such as dust devils and twisters. Tornadoes can reach over 250 miles per hour and mostly occur in the springtime. Last year Missouri was in the news a lot because of the fierce EF 5 tornado that devastated [|Joplin], Missouri. On this wiki page you can learn how to prepare for a tornado and also what to do during a tornado. media type="custom" key="12294578" [|MICDS Weather Station]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">**Follow this link for a amazing tornado power point!**

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== <span style="color: #bd2afe; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">C <span style="color: #b200ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">u <span style="color: #a600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">r <span style="color: #a22afe; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">r <span style="color: #9700ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">e <span style="color: #8d2afe; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">n <span style="color: #8b00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">t <span style="color: #792afe; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">E <span style="color: #7700ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">v <span style="color: #6d2afe; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">e <span style="color: #622afe; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">n <span style="color: #542afe; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">t == <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">116 people died in Joplin, Missouri from a devastating tornado that hit in May, 2011 as a combination of warm moist air and cold dry air masses collided. A continuous supply of warm moist air is needed and provided by the Gulf of Mexico. The water temperature last spring in the Gulf of Mexico was two degrees Fahrenheit, warmer than the usual temperature. <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">How did the people in Joplin react? Actually the people of Joplin were shocked and overwhelmed with emotion. They could not believe that tornadoes were this deadly and destructive. Through all the shock, the people of Joplin were pretty calm and helped each other out. <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">The major after effect of the disaster is improved information on tornadoes and understanding how tornadoes form, because people there wanted to know everything about them. <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">Two important facts I learned were, 1) The warm water supply from the Gulf of Mexico can really impact the outcome of a tornado. 2) Intense tornadoes are actually not becoming more common. <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">This event is important to science because it tells us that the continuous supply of warm air from the Gulf of Mexico can allow a tornado to keep going for a longer period of time. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">This is the Enhanced Fujita scale. The scale measures a tornado's wind speed. The scale was originally created by a meteorologist named Dr. Fujita. The scale he created went all the way up to F 12! After he died other meteorologists decided that they needed a more efficient scale but still similar to the original scale. So they created the Enhanced Fujita scale, only going up to EF 5.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">This is destruction from a tornado in Ohio.

media type="custom" key="12329556" media type="custom" key="12337500" "BLU99040905 - APRIL 9 1999 - BLUE ASH, OHIO, USA: Little Remains Of A Neighborhood Devastated By A Killer Tornado That Ripped Through Cincinnati And The Miami Valley In Southwest Ohio Today, 9 April. More Than 300 Homes Were Heavily Damaged And At Least 100 Destroyed Along The Path Of The Twister. Damage In This Suburb Of Cincinnati Was Severe And Meteorologist Are Classing The Tornado As An F4 Category (In This Area). F4 Tornados Have Winds Of Up To 260Mph Associated With Them. Four Are Confirmed Dead So Far With Damage In The Millions. Mw/Mike Williams UPI." (n.d.): //Image Collection//. Web. 31 Jan. 2012. Persistent link to this record (Permalink): []
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Akin, Wallace. "The Great Tri-State Tornado." //American Heritage// 51.3 (2000): 32. //Middle Search Plus//. Web. 1 Feb. 2012.

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">"Joplin, Missouri, Tornado Strong but Not Surprising?" May 23, 2011 National Geographic Willie Drye

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