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Movie Review Twister Blows Away Reality
1,228 wordsMovie Review: Twister blows away reality A storm chaser's dream come true is to get close enough to a mile-wide tornado to shoot unique video of nature's extreme fury. Maybe even take some close-up measurements of the storm's surroundings, if the situation warrants. But never will a chase team be caught racing into the middle of a cornfield toward the heart of a whirling funnel, no matter what the prize. Yet that's exactly what Twister actors Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt do as "professional" storm...
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Oklahoma City First Aid
1,046 wordsOther than the sweltering heat in the summer time in Oklahoma City, the only dilemma are tornadoes. I grew up in the middle of this tornado alley and eventually developed a sixth sense for detecting tornado activity. Even in the 1980 s tornadoes were known for their violent crime wave, vandalizing neighborhoods and kidnapping children and adults. Imagine a beautiful evening in Moore, a suburb lying on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. Mom is in the kitchen and the kids are playing in the yard. In ...
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Miles Per Hour Rocky Mountains
1,499 wordsFacts. A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of two hundred and fifty miles per hour or more. Damage paths can be in excess of one mile wide and fifty miles long. In an average year, eight hundred tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in eighty deaths and over one thousand five hundred injuries. Types Of Tornadoes. The average tornado is usually spli...
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Miles Per Hour Warm Air
1,621 wordsWeather is the condition of the air that surrounds the earth. Weather affects our lives in many ways; for example, the type of clothing that we wear any given day depends largely on the weather. If it is cold we put on slacks, if it is hot we slip on shorts. The United States has to deal with the wildest weather in the world. Other countries deal with weather, but the USA brings blizzards, + 100 F heat and - 35 F cold, desert dryness, hurricanes and the worlds deadliest tornados. The weather als...
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Wind Speed Air Masses
1,748 wordsTornado Every year approximately one thousand tornados happen in the United States, which annually kill about 60 people (Wikipedia). Tornadoes are classified as the most dangerous and destructive types of storms. They bring a lot of damage, especially to our country, which experiences the most amount and the most intense tornadoes on earth. Tornado is a vortex of spinning air with very low pressure, rising to the cloud in atmosphere. It touches the ground and causes physical damage when moving a...
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Movie Theater F 5
903 wordsThe movie that Twister Twister The movie that I watched was called Twister. It is a movie that is about the study of tornados and a story of one of the actors lives called Joe. As a little girl, Joes father was killed by an F- 5 tornado (This is the largest size tornado possible). The movie begins with the actual death of Joes father in 1969. After the tragedy, time is moved on to present day and into the field where Joe is with a group of scientists called the Chasers. Joe is presently married ...
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People Were Killed Early Morning
1,043 wordsA tornado is a violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm cloud to the earth? s surface. They are sometimes nicknamed twisters because of their shape and because of what they do. The winds in the tornadoes are usually 100 mph or less. In +F 4 s they can exceed 250 mph. They usually stay on a track of a few miles or less and are less than 100 yds. wide. For the development of tornadoes there are a few conditions required. An abundant low-level of moisture and unstable atmos...
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