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TCM 14614

Level 2.2

Word Count: 378

Reading Level Correlations:

Early Intervention Level 19

Guided Reading Level J

DRA Level 20

Lexile 660L

What can blow away cars

and knock down buildings?

Tornadoes and hurricanes

can! Find out what forces

create such powerful winds

and cause these scary

storms.

Tornadoes

Hurricanes!

and

Tornadoes

Hurricanes!

and

Cy Armour

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Table of Contents

Wind Power .................................. 4

Tornadoes ...................................... 8

How Tornadoes Happen ..........

Hurricanes .................................. 16

How Hurricanes Happen ........ 18

Here Comes the Sun ................. 22

Glossary ...................................... 24

Wind Power

Can you remember blowing

on a pinwheel? The harder you

blew, the faster it spun.

Imagine thousands of people

blowing on that same pinwheel.

What would happen?

All of those people might

create a very big wind.

But even if they blew their

hardest, the wind they made

would not come close to the

power of a tornado or hurricane .

Tornadoes and hurricanes are

the biggest winds of all!

Tornadoes

Have you ever watched

water go down a drain? It

becomes a whirlpool .

What Is It?

A whirlpool is wide at

the top and narrow at

the bottom. It is open

down the middle. Water

in a whirlpool drains

down, spinning around

and around.

A tornado is like a whirlpool,

only it is much bigger and made

of air instead of water.

Tornadoes are powerful. If

you have seen them in movies,

you have some idea of what

tornadoes can do.

They can knock down big

buildings. They can blow away

cars and trees as if they were

feathers.

How Tornadoes Happen

Tornadoes come from strong

winds, powerful thunderclouds ,

and warm and cold air.

tornado

If warm and cold air meet

in a storm, they can form a

whirlpool of air. When the

whirlpool swirls fast enough, it

becomes a tornado.

Debris (duh-BREE)

is bits of earth and

other things that

have been broken

and destroyed.

A tornado reaches down

from a thundercloud like a

swirling, gray snake. It picks up

debris from the ground below.

The tornado swirls and hops

along the ground. It follows the

path of the thundercloud.

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