INSIDE TORNADOES
Language: English Publication details: New York Sterling 2010/01/01Edition: 1Description: 48ISBN:- 9781402777813
- CS-551.553 CAR/IN
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Lending | Ernakulam Public Library Children's Area | Non-fiction | CS-551.553 CAR/IN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 2024-09-08 | E187143 |
Summary:
Tornadoes are the most violent storms on the planet-as these photographs filled with before-and-after images of storm sites reveal. What makes a tornado, where they strike, and what scientists discover as they risk their lives driving equipment as close as possible to these storms. With first-person accounts of historic storms, facts on climate change and its potential effect on tornadoes, and hands-on activities.
A Wedge Tornado
A Stovepipe tornado
A rain-wrap tornado
rope tornado
an elephant trunk tornado
A gustnado
Funnel cloud
waterpout
CONTENTS
Twisted Weather
Where and when do Tornadoes Happen?
Why and How do Tornadoes Happen?
How Bad Was It? Sizing Up Tornadoes
Tornadoes to Remember : Four Devastrating Twisters
Storm Scientists in Action
Tornado Safety
Tornado Watcher words to Know
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