Tornado

Tornado is the most damaging storm.The word

tornado come from Spanish Tronada that mean
thunder storm. Also come from Latin language Tonare
which mean rumbling. According to the story,the word
tornado was taken from combination between ronada
and Tornar in Spanish. Tornado is air column which
rotate very fast and form relation between
cumulonimbus cloud. Usually tornado has wind velocity
between 177 km/hours or more with reach average 75
meters and attack several kilometers before
disappearing. Several tornado which reach wind velocity
more than 300-480 km/hours have wide more than one
mile and can survive in the surface more than 100 km.
Tornado generally happens in the afternoon to
evening. In America, tornado happens between 15.0021.00. Although tornado has been research by the
scientist, in every continent, most of tornado happens in
America. In America, most of tornado happen in tornado
alley in middle-west America. Other area which
generally happen tornado are South Canada, South
Africa, East and south Asia, Middle Europe, Italy, West
Australia, New South Wales, and Indonesia. In
Indonesia, usually happen in Sumatra and Java.
Tornado has some types. They are weak, strong and
violence tornado. Weak tornado include 88% of all
tornado. The wind velocity is less than 112 mph. Weak
tornado happen about 1-10 minutes. Death because of
this tornado are about 5% of the total death because of
tornado. Strong tornado include 11% of all tornado. The
wind velocity is between113-206 mph.This tornado
happens in 20 minutes or more. The death because of
strong tornado is about 30% of the total death because
of tornado. Violent tornado is rarely happen. This
include 1% of all tornado. The wind velocity is more than

205 mph or more. This tornado happens in one hours or

more. Although rarely happen, this tornado can cause
death about 70% of the total death because of tornado.
Before tornado happens, it has several signal. First,
the sky seems dark. Then happen ice rain around the
area, usually 20-25 minutes. After that, the situation
will calm, but the sky become darker. Fourth, cloud
moving around the area. Fifth, the sound of tornado
heard. At the beginning, the sound like water fall, but in
the process of time it will change until like jet plane
which is very loud. A tornado usually move from
southwest to north east.
The change of air layer is the cause of tornado. In
this case, if the cold air layer is above the hot air layer,
the hot air layer go up with velocity about 300 km/hour.
The air which infiltrating from this side, cause wind
rotate and form Tornado.
The process of tornado begin with storm followed
by rain, thunder and lightning. When the temperature of
the soil go up, the hot and moist air start to go up too.
Then, when warm, the moist and cold air fill up the dry
air. That upraised up, enter to the upper air layer. A
thunderbolt cloud begin to form in this phase. The move
of air go up is very fast. Wind from side cause the
different direction and form a very very strong
rotation.A cone, result of that air rotation start to form
and seem from the cloud to soil surface so form
Tornado.