How severe is the storm?
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How severe is the storm?
The most violent of all storms is the tornado with rotating winds in excess of 300 miles an hour. More than 700 tornadoes each year slash their way through cities and towns in every state in America and many parts of the world. Making a noise like a roaring train or jet squadron, a tornado leaves a path of destruction every where it touches down.
Some large tornadoes keep going on their destructive paths for hours, cutting a swath as wide as a mile and several hundreds of miles long, at speeds of 70 mph or more. Normally, the funnel moves with its parent thunderstorm, in an easterly direction.
Tornadoes can occur at all times of the year and at any time of the day or night, but are most likely to occur in the spring and summer with the morning or early evening daily thunderstorms. Strike points cannot be predicted as the funnel can skip and jump from place to place, leaving some houses totally untouched while destroying the house next door completely.
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