LINKS

RESEARCH SITES

These sites will help you complete your storm chaser quiz and to develop your teaching toolkit.

WHAT IS A TORNADO?

http://movies.warnerbros.com/twister/cmp/tornadointro.html

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/NWSTornado/

 

TORNADO SAFETY

http://www.champaign.org/tornsafe.html

http://movies.warnerbros.com/twister/cmp/safety.html

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/owlie/tornado1.htm

 

FUJITA SCALE

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/f-scale.html

http://movies.warnerbros.com/twister/cmp/intensity.html

 

TORNADO FORMATION

http://www.tornadochaser.net/tornado.html

http://www.outlook.noaa.gov/tornadoes/q&a.htm

 

Pictures of a tornado forming.

http://www.tornadochaser.net/july21.html

 

Computer simulation of tornado formation.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00007AD9-70C1-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21

 

TORNADO ALLEY

http://www.tornadochaser.net/tornalley.html

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wtornavg.htm

 

WATCH OR WARNING

http://whyfiles.org/013tornado/5.html

 

AVERAGE NUMBER OF TORNADOS/YEAR BY STATE

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/NWSTornado/pic14.jpg

 

HOW TORNADOES MOVE

http://www.stormsheltersinc.com/faqs.htm#where

 

TORNADO DISASTER KIT

http://www.disasterrelief.org/Library/Prepare/supplies.html

 

PICTURES OF TORNADOS:

NOAA's National Severe Storms Labratory:  http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nssl/index.html

 

Kansas Tornado Chasers photo gallery:

http://www.tornadochaser.com/torpics3.html

 

 

More information about tornadoes!

To learn more about tornadoes visit some of these sites.

 

QUESTIONS ABOUT TORNADOS

http://www.outlook.noaa.gov/tornadoes/q%26a.htm

http://www.tornadoproject.com/cellar/tttttttt.htm

 

STORM CHASERS

http://www.stormtrack.org/index.php

http://www.tornadochaser.net/index.html

http://www.tornadochaser.com/

 

OTHER SITES ABOUT TORNADOS

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wtwist0.htm

http://whyfiles.org/013tornado/index.html

http://www.tornadoproject.com/

 

TORNADOES IN INDIANA

Last year Indiana had one of the worst tornado's events in recent history. 

To learn more about the path of these tornados visit the National Weather Service Forecast Office:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/Sept20/0920.htm

 

To see pictures of the damage caused by these tornados:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/Sept20/Damage1.htm

 

 

AN EXPERIMENT TO DO AT HOME

MAKE A TORNADO AT HOME

http://www.ucar.edu/40th/webweather/tornado/tornadoes.htm

 


 

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