Tornado Disaster: Clash of air masses in Tornado Alley

The Independent - London | May 5, 1999| | Copyright

TORNADOES FORM in the unstable atmosphere of a thunderstorm, when winds of opposite direction meet and start a column of air spinning.

Think of rolling a cigarette. Fingers push one way round the cylinder of paper and tobacco, thumbs push the other - and it revolves. Tornado formation is this process, scaled up millions of times.

Optimum conditions exist in a belt of the United States Midwest, particularly Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and northern Texas - "Tornado Alley" - where cold dry air from the Rocky Mountains meets warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. Where these two giant air masses ...

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