Tornado Story

Tornadoes can have a wide range of colours, depending on the environment in which they form. Those which form in a dry environment can be nearly invisible, marked only by swirling debris at the base of the funnel. Most tornadoes have wind speeds of 177 kmh (110 mph) or less, are approximately 75m (250 feet) across, and travel a several kilometres (a few miles) before dissipating. Some attain wind speeds of more than 400 kmh (250 mph), stretch more than 1.6 km (a mile) across, and stay on the ground for any kilometres.

These are some of the facts...

But now it's your turn. A tornado experience is a subjective thing. And not every tornado is terrifying but it is your experience. So please share your tornado story...

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Turned at the Fence 
I live in a small town SW of Little Rock, Arkansas. On April 3, 2008 my mother called and said that a funnel cloud had been reported about 30 miles southwest ...

Many, many brushes with tornados.... 
I live in Tennessee on the very tip of Coffee and Franklin county. We are prone to tornados. There are no certain times of the year. They happen all ...

Hiding in the Hallway 
I was 10 and at school when the tornado sirens went off. All day we had been under a tornado watch. My mom had warned me that there would be storms....

Very Close Experience 
I am a storm spotter/chaser whose interest came about partly because of two brushes with tornadoes years ago when I was much younger. The first experience ...

Many close calls with Tornadoes 
It was a beautiful day to start out with. I'm 13 now, but then I was 8. It was a warm soggy day in Lockport Illinois. Perfectly natural to me. I ...

CLOSE CALL 
I remember this day all to well. I am 11 and my names Lizzie.

My town is stort of hilly, but we had a tornado about 20-30 years ago. i wasn't born ...

Twisted in Riverside 
We live in Riverside, CA. and on Thursday May 23 at about 3:30pm two sister tornadoes touched down in our city of Riverside. Normally, this does not happen ...

Will We Make It? 
It had started out as an ordinary day. The sunny heat was making sweat run down my bare neck. I was playing basketball with my cousin, Trisha. My mom ...

The Tornado 
April, 17 2006,
The day started out sunny and breezy. By evening though it was clustered with clouds and they were issueing severe thunderstorm warnings ...

Illinois Tornado 
I am 12 years old, and until June 6 2008 I've never had a tornado before. That day I came home from Boy Scout Camp, in the St. Louis, Missouri area, and ...

Tornado That Nearly Ended My Life 
May 4,2007 I'm in Ellis Crook Oklahoma. Tornados have been spotted but me and some of my friends didn't take it seriously but as we were playing B-ball ...

Shock Of My Life 
I live in tornado alley and on march 13 1990 I got home from school and walked my dog around the streets near my house. I was walking and things seemed ...

Tylers Tornado Story 
It was June 27th 2008 in Manitoba. The last day of school. My mom was lying down and the cable went out. All of a sudden my friend saw a funnel cloud we ...

Illinois Tornado 
I came home from work one day, I live near St. Louis. When I got home with kids I saw it get very ominous looking to the west. A tornado warning was eventually ...

Twister  
One time my family was on a trip to Lake Rudolph and it was on a Sunday before I went with my mom and my dad. My grandma, my aunt, grandpa and my uncle ...

Scary - Pittsburgh Tornado 
One day in pittsburgh, it was the first tornado I have ever been in. It all started when I was having a sleep over then the electricity went out. The thing ...

no one else saw it.....  Not rated yet
April 29th 2009 I was at school sitting in my science class looking out the window with my gurrliees. The air was soooo effin muggy and sticky. It was ...

We got lucky!  Not rated yet
This happend on Augest 20th,2009. The day before the tornado there were already warnings of a Severe thunder storm and 2 tornados in Milton Ontario.

First ...

Ellison Illinois   Not rated yet
I grew up in Smithshire Illinois and always heard stories of the tornado that destroyed Ellison. Supposedly a huge tornado hit this west central Illinois ...

D's Tornado Story  Not rated yet
I live in southern Michigan. We get lots of tornado warnings, but it's mostly because of rotation and not tornadoes. One sunny day in September, black ...

No Idea  Not rated yet
In the winter of 2006, my mum's side of the family all travelled to Florida to spend chirstmas together, as a sort of family reunion. All of us live in ...

Scary Night  Not rated yet
One night I was playing with my friends and then we saw this funnel cloud and my friend said what is that? I said it is a funnel cloud my friend was scared ...

"HAVING TO GO THROUGH THE WORST"  Not rated yet
So....i was just like uhhh chillen with ma homegurls jessica and nyasha then all of a sudden we hear a sound and like umm we got so fudging scared!!! So ...

The f5 twister  Not rated yet
One day I was just finishing school on a sunny day when suddenly it got dark.The clouds were maybe as dark as a dark room.I just ignored it though.Then ...

Huddled in a gas station  Not rated yet
When I was 15 there was a f5 Tornado and me and my famliy were on the road going to vist some of my cousins and we were under a tornado watch so we stoped ...

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