Tornado!

Tornado! — page 1 — Wailing sirens It's a hot day in May The sky looks green The tornado siren wails You and your family head to the basement and turn on the radio The weather reporter says a tornado has been spotted 3 miles 4 8 km north of town You wait You listen for the roar of winds Suddenly the siren stops The tornado missed you You are safe A tornado is a spinning column of wind that reaches from the clouds down to the

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Tornado! — page 3 — A tornado is like a giant vacuum cleaner It can pick up cars and tear roofs off houses Do tornadoes pick up every car and It truck in their

Tornado! — page 4 — A tornado is a giant tower of air It is also called a twister Twisters rip roofs off houses and tear down barns They lift trucks off the ground and drop them miles away They suck up almost everything in their path They twist and turn Sometimes they strike one building but miss the next No Scientists don't know why twisters lift some and not

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