Tornado

Use the following websites to help you to answer the "General Information" questions on your handout.

1. What is a tornado?

• http://www.weatherwizkids.com/tornado.htm

2. Where and when can tornadoes form?

• http://www.weatherwizkids.com/tornado.htm (Scroll down to the sections titled "When are Tornadoes Most Likely to Occur" and "Where are Tornadoes Most Likely to Occur?")
• http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/tornado.html

Use the following websites to help you answer the "Formation" questions on your handout.

3. How do tornadoes form?

• http://www.weatherwizkids.com/tornado.htm (Scroll down to the section titled "How do Tornadoes Form?")
• http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/forces-of-nature.html (Click 2 for "What Causes Tornadoes?")

Use the following websites to help you to answer the "Damage" questions on your handout.

4. What kind of damage can tornadoes create?

• http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/forces-of-nature.html

5. Name a previous tornado that had a devastating impact?  When and where did it occur?

• http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/tornado/history.html (Click on one of the links under "Historical Tornadoes" to read about a previous tornado)

Use the following websites to help you answer the "Safety" questions on your handout.

6. How do meteorologists (weather scientists) predict its formation? 

• http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/forces-of-nature.html (Click 5 for "How are tornadoes forecasted (predicted)?)

7. How can people keep safe from a tornado?

• http://www.weatherwizkids.com/tornado%20safety.htm