Tornadoes

Tornadoes
This website has concise summaries on multiple aspects of tornadoes, including what they are, formation, types, locations, graphs, preparedness, warnings and safety.

@Tornado Encyclopedia Tornadoes 101 Tornado Video Access

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__2011 Tornadoes__
For information about the 2011 tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina, visit the red cross disaster newsroom. This website includes streaming videos, relief efforts, and updates on the destruction. or NOAA 2011 tornado information for monthly tornado updates, most recent death tolls and specific links for each affected region.

Interactive: Tornadoes 2011, location graphs, before and after graphics, panoramic views and summaries of destruction based on location Aerial Imagery Aftermath Photos over 200 narrated photos from April 16, 2011

__** [|National Geographic- Force of Nature:] [|Tornadoes]**__

This website offers a small interactive which students could navigate though and determine general information about tornadoes. Once at the website you need to click on the picture of the tornado to complete the tornado portion. The general information includes what a tornado is, its characteristics, effects and information about tornado prediction. At the end of the interactive a student would be able to create different types of tornadoes by changing different conditions such as air mass, winds and pressure.

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