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nature's spinning tantrum, capable of driving straw through a tree trunk like a nail
means A violently rotating column of air that touches both the ground and a thunderstorm cloud, capable of flinging cars, houses, and debris with terrifying force.
from From Spanish 'tronada,' meaning thunderstorm (from 'tronar,' to thunder), likely tangled up with the Spanish verb 'tornar,' to turn or twist — the spinning sense and the thundering sense blurred together in sailors' mouths until the word came to mean the whirling storm itself.
- wind speed
- strongest gusts top 300 miles per hour
- alley address
- US gets most tornadoes on Earth, yearly
- weird flex
- can pluck chickens clean of feathers
- sound
- survivors describe a roaring freight train
- twin act
- sometimes spawn multiple vortices at once
tri-state tornado of 1925 — deadliest tornado in us history, killed 695 people across missouri, illinois, and indiana on march 18, 1925
lubbock tornado of 1970 — f5 tornado that devastated lubbock, texas on may 11, 1970, killing 26 people and causing $135 million in damage
joplin tornado of 2011 — ef5 tornado that killed 161 people in joplin, missouri on may 22, 2011, deadliest us tornado since 1947