tornadoes

Describes the formation, different types, and study of tornadoes.

Provides answers to a variety of questions about tornadoes and hurricanes, including "Where do most tornadoes strike," and "How long do hurricanes last?".

Discusses how tornadoes are formed, how they kill and destroy, and how to predict and prepare for them. Also describes some famous tornadoes, including the ones that struck Vernon and Wichita Falls, Texas, in April, 1979.

Discusses types of wind, how their force is measured, the characteristics of hurricanes and tornadoes, some devastating storms, weather proverbs, and safety precautions to take during hurricanes and tornadoes.

The author profiles real tornadoes and severe weather patterns over six thousand miles of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, known as Tornado Alley.

Provides information about tornadoes, explaining how they form, what happens inside a tornado, how they travel, when and where they occur, and other aspects of the destructive storms; looks at how tornadoes are tracked and forecast; and includes accounts of some of history's worst tornadoes.

Describes the origin and nature of tornadoes and how to stay safe when threatened by one of these dangerous storms.

Ruby Jane thinks that her sister Velma Jean is the bravest person in her family, but when a tornado comes, Ruby Jane shows that she is very brave herself.

The students of the Magic School Bus learn about tornadoes.

Meg continues to write in her diary about her family's adventures in the Kansas prairie in 1856 as they try to return to a more normal life after surviving a cholera epidemic, separation, and invading Border Ruffians.