Tornado

Normal Information
A tornado is a rapidly spinning column of air, and usually is formed from a severe thunderstorm known as a supercell. A supercell is a very strong severe thunderstorm and can produce hail, flooding, winds in excess of hurricane force, intense lightning, and yes, tornadoes.

Facts
Tornadoes are rated with the Enhanced Fajita Scale, or EF scale for short. From 0 to 5, each one represents a different windspeed range and a different level of damage. EF0 tornadoes do little damage, by blowing out a few windows, blowing away loose and unanchored objects such as garbage cans, damaging roof shingles, breaking high rise objects and branches, pushes cars up the road, but it cannot even lift a human into the air. An EF5 tornado can turn cars, trucks, even small houses into high speed missiles, rip grass and sometimes even dirt right from the ground, mangles cars beyond recognition, completely decimates houses, crumbles concrete and brick structures, can destroy an entire neighborhood, destroying trees, and debarking stronger trees, and sometimes, if it hits a city, the death count is massive.

Fun Facts

 * Also called Twisters, Cyclones, Vortexes or Whirlwinds.
 * Most deaths are from debris hitting people, not people sucked into the vortex.
 * Has air pressure inside that is equivalent to the air pressure on top of Mount Everest.
 * Strongest tornado windspeeds recorded were 315 miles per hour!
 * Over 600 tornadoes appear in the United States each year.
 * People sometimes misspell the plural word "Tornadoes" as "Tornados."
 * The largest tornado was 2.6 miles wide.
 * Comes in the following variants: Landspout, Elephant Trunk, Stove Pipe, Drillbit, Waterspout, Multi-vortex, Wedge.
 * Does not need to have a visible funnel to actually be there.
 * A tornado was caught on fire in Canberra, Australia, in 2004.