Making Twisters

We studied tornadoes last month, and made our own tornadoes in mason jars. It was hard to capture the twisters with the camera, but they really are in there! 

Here are some interesting facts that we learned about tornadoes.

Small tornadoes sometimes form on the edge of bigger tornadoes.

In Oklahoma, a small herd of cattle were sucked up by a tornado and carried across the countryside, before being set down unharmed.

In 1981, a tornado that swept through the Italian City of Ancona lifted a sleeping baby from its baby carriage and set it down unharmed on the ground.

The UK gets about 60 tornadoes a year, even with its moderate climate.

The deadliest Tornado happened in 1925. It swept through three states and killed 689 people and injured 2,000.

Tornadoes is from the Spanish word, tronada, meaning thunderstorm.

Dust Devils are strong tornadoes that pass over desert areas.

Some people in ancient times thought dust devils were ghosts.

The safest place to be during a Tornado is underground, which makes basements and cellars the ideal shelters to get away from tornadoes.

Most of the world’s destructive tornadoes occur during the the summer in mid-western states 

of the US.

The myth of opening the windows in a house will help prevent a tornado from it being destroyed is false. In fact, opening the wrong windows could allow air to rush in and blow the house apart from the inside.