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Tornadoes Выполнила: Амбарцумова Анна Павловна Учитель английского языка МОУ «СОШ №1» город Кингисепп 2011 TORNADO

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What is it tornado? Tornado is very strong, rotating wind. It looks like a funnel coming down from a storm cloud. When it reaches the ground, a tornado acts like a giant hoover.

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Diameter of a funnel can reach 1 – 3 km

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Also known as "twisters," they extend downward from the huge clouds of a severe thunderstorm. The winds that rotate within a tornado usually reach a speed of almost 300 miles per hour!

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There are about 800 tornadoes a year in the USA

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THE MOST TERRIBLE TORNADO! The USA state Oklahoma in 1999

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Moore (state Oklahoma) is called "the world capital of the tornado," because tornadoes happen there with sad regularity

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The tornado was rated F5. The speed of wind reached 512 km/h

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Ratings of tornado The numbers from F0 to F5 are rating of tornado wind speed. The letter F comes from the name of Dr Ted Fujita, the scientist who created the scale for classifying tornadoes

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Diameter of a funnel was 3 km and zone of destructions consisted 27 km

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There was also a case of five railway coaches, each weighing 70 tons, lifted from their tracks

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Tornado brought heavy destructions. Hospital and two schools were destroyed. Ninety people were killed and two hundred were injured.

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Directed by Nekhorosheva Oksana Screenplay by Katkova Yulya and Polukhina Yulya 7 class MBOU “ Solgonskaya SOSH”