Sunday, April 24, 2011

Tornado Swarm Kills More than 40 People

   Severe weather resulting in tornadoes swept the South killing more than 40 people over a three day period. More than 240 tornado reports flowed in between Thursday and Sunday. Several reports indicated EF-3
damage. North Carolina was hit the hardest. Other areas hit included Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas.
    A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. Tornado season runs from March to early July. An average of 70 people are killed every year by tornadoes.



http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/135358/20110418/tornado-weather-storm-north-carolina-oklahoma-alabama-mississippi-arkansas.htm

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