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Ashley Gifford, Jordan Nickle, Taylor-Anne Parkinson, James Tambourine • Tornadoes are normally spawned from severe thunderstorms called a supercell. • Supercells cause warm air and cold air to meet, they then move respectively depending on their temperatures. • The warm air from above starts swirling, due to the coriolis effect. • • • • Tornados form mostly in Bangladesh and the US. • They from because of the position upon the Earth • Relative Latitude and Longitude • Between about 30˚-50˚ north or south • The landscape/terrain • Weather Conditions Tornado Alley, USA 38.4500° N, 96.5333° W (Kansas) Bangladesh 23.8511° N, 89.9250° E • Most storms are produced in the spring and summer times of the year. • Thunderstorms are an essential part of creating a tornado. • • • • Tri-State Tornado Traveled through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. Single deadliest US tornado, killing 695 people. Was the fastest tornado on Earth at 73 mph. Ranks 3 in the scale of worlds worst tornados. Daulatpur-Saturia • Costliest and most deadly tornado in Bangladesh on record. • Daulatpur-Saturia holds the record for most persons killed at roughly 1,300 people. • Ranks first in worlds tornados. Tri-State Tornado • Was part of a tornado outbreak. • Was said to have lasted 3.5 hours while traveling 234 miles (377 km) • Estimated cost of damages including inflation rates is $1.4 billion. Daulatpur-Saturia • Storm estimated to be 1 mile long with a path of destruction estimated to be about 50 miles long. • Bangladesh Observer stated that "The devastation was so complete, that barring some skeletons of trees, there were no signs of standing infrastructures" • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daulatpur-Saturia_tornado • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_records • http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/world/asia/bangladeshtornado • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_MuaWDg5Z0 • http://www.tornadoproject.com/toptens/toptens.htm • http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/downtown.html • http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cae/svrwx/when.htm • http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/severeweather/tornado es.html