SCIENCE CONCEPT
A tornado is a rotating column which is very harmful that touches the ground usually from a thunderstorm. Tornadoes are made when warm moist air close to the ground and cold air up above and when wind speed changes or direction and height changes. A tornado is made of water droplets, wind, debris, and dust. They form from intense thunderstorms in moist, hot areas. In the thunderclouds the hot air rises and the cold air falls with this it can form a rotating column which starts horizontal but eventually becomes vertical and comes out of the cloud forming a tornado.
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APPLICATION
We need to study tornadoes so that we can help forecast and save life’s. With the study of tornadoes we can find ways to detect a tornado earlier on and give people more time to be ready. Because about 71 people a year die from tornadoes, if we could realize a tornado forming ahead of time we could save more lives. I live in Oklahoma and one of the biggest and most common fears of Oklahomans is tornadoes. If only we knew how to realize a tornado forming we would save more people’s lives. Especially scientists but normal people need to know about tornadoes to survive.
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CAREER
There are a couple careers that study tornadoes some of these are storm chasers, American Geophysical Union scientist, Meteorologists. They have to usually have a bachelor in Meteorology or something like that. They make anywhere between $34.64 and $9.01 an hour. Meteorologists can use a phased array technology to detect winds during a storm developing and scan a tornado in 1 minute.
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SCIENTIST
Fujita also known as Mr.Tornado discovered the scale to measure tornado wind speeds, which we still use to this day. He created a scale which estimates the wind speed of a tornado, by what damage it leaves behind. He lived from October 23, 1920 to November 19,1998, he lived in Japan, and America. He helped study the atomic bomb effects on Japan, he helped study why flight 66 fell out of the sky. He found out it was a wind burst, they got devices which helped detect wind bursts, since then there hasn't been a plane crash from wind burst. He also studied hurricanes, thunderstorms, and definitely tornadoes. His name is the F in the measurements of tornadoes ( for example F1, F2, F3) which shows how bad a tornado is and its effect.
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