TORNADO
This is and F5 tornado that hit in Kansas of June 22. 2007.
By: Trevor Espravnik [1]
My Experience. Trevor Espravnik June 4, 2011
On a dark night June 4, 2011 I was outside when an F2 tornado came spiraling like a steam roll down the street with rage. The sound of it blew out my ear drums like a freight train was blazing down the tracks at full speed. I took off on a full on dead sprint to the nearest ditch to get in a low land area to avoid the tornado. I heard a tree collapse at full blast leaving a huge crater beside me. The tornado was near me pulling me in with its 113-157 miles per hour winds. I was holding onto a sewage pipe for my life. When it finally passed over the trees were knocked over, cars were upside down, and almost everything besides the ditch, I was in, was out of place. It was in that moment that I realized all the damage an F2 tornado could create it was hard to imagine an F5 coming towards me with its 300 mph winds. This was a memorable moment that will stay with me forever, just because of the destruction it created destroying everything in its path.. Even if it was only an F2 it was still loud, scary, and destructive.
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About Tornadoes A mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud.
The picture above is a bow echo. When bow echoes appear in the weather forecast it means that a tornado is more likely to occur because of the formation. If you see this you should get into a safe area a like tornado shelter, deep in your basement, someplace without any windows, and if you don’t have any areas like that then you should go into the bathtub and pull a mattress over the top of it. Tornadoes are possibly one of the most severe storms and most interesting of all time.
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