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Organize & Summary
A Fill out the organizer with the information you learned in the story.
Topic A tornado is a violent windstorm.
How Tornadoes Develop
What I Learned
How Deadly Tornadoes Can Be
B Fill in the blanks with the correct words to summarize the story.
violent individually destructive low-pressure massive unstable
A tornado is a windstorm in which a rotating column of
air spins very fast. They are not very wide but they are .
Tornadoes develop within a large scale system. A
thunderstorm forms when hot air meets cooler air.
Sometimes a thunderstorm develops a rotational wind
that touches the ground at high speed. This is a tornado. Tornadoes
usually occur within a short period of time. The Tri-State
Tornado of March 18, 1925, was the deadliest tornado in American
history. 689 people were killed by a series of tornadoes.
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