Stormchasers

People are constantly scared of one of nature’s most feared storms, the tornado. This storm can happen anywhere and anytime if the conditions are right. Some people are willing to risk their lives to see this! It is a thing of beauty in their eyes.

The first thing that starts a tornado would be the winds. The wind updraft can form a funnel. This funnel is called a Mesocyclone and when the mesocyclone touches the ground it is considered a tornado. Clouds play an important role in forming tornadoes too. Some other clouds are called, Wall Clouds. These clouds protrude from the sky and look like a giant waves coming down about to crash on earth. When wall clouds form the sky might turn to a greenish color or some other color. This wall-cloud is called a Super-Cell. Super-Cells usually produce large amounts of rain up to three hours long, along with baseball sized hail. Once the Super-Cell becomes a tornado it may last from a few seconds to an hour.

Tornadoes can form anywhere given the right weather conditions. There have been some tornadoes spotted going up and down a mountain. Most tornadoes form in Tornado Alley, which is the Great Plains of America, which includes: Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, holds the record for being hit by the most tornadoes in the world. In Greensburg, Kansas, there was a massive tornado that hit. It was said to be two miles wide, but here’s the words of a man, Dan Barry, who lived to tell his story. “Yes, a tornado nearly two miles wide really did mow through here one night last month. It really did kill ten of the 1,450 residents. It really did destroy just about every house, business, and church, as though determined to erase Gr...

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...course or decapitate in mid-air. Then if you are lucky and get inside then you have to be heavy enough to stay on the ground. That’s where the TIV comes in.

It takes time to be prepared for storm chasing. The cables all have to be hooked up to the radar, computer, and GPS’s. Even stormchasers need time to recoupe. Each day it’s a new hotel, a new city, and a new state. These little breaks give them the new hope and courage they need to do their jobs. It’s quite depressing when you’re on the road all day and you don’t see a tornado.

We will probably never know how tornadoes form and function, but we do know that they are one of natures’ amazing disasters. With the help of stormchasers we may know in many years about this beauty. Tornadoes are an amazing destroyer, but they also give you the chance needed to start all over again, so new things can grow and thrive.