How powerful is the tornado storm?

In North America, people call this devastating tornado a tornado. Once this huge tornado is formed, it will destroy everything wherever it goes. Many hard facts are well known. The Tonato storm lifted people, animals and even houses into the air.

A female teacher in a primary school in the United States once described such a thing: "Once in class, I heard deafening thunder and suddenly a terrible wind blew. Before I could take the children to a safe place, all the glasses in the classroom suddenly fell, and the children rushed at me in panic. At this moment, just like a pair of invisible wings holding up the sky with everything in the classroom, the children and other things are circling around me, and I soon lost consciousness ... "

Tornado, a land tornado, is like a giant vacuum cleaner. Wherever I go, everything is gone. It crosses the ground and everything on the ground will be swept away by it; It passes through reservoirs and rivers, often rolling up into the sky, and sometimes even the bottom of reservoirs and rivers is exposed.

When there is a tornado at night, its sight is both frightening and as dreamy as entering a fairyland. The whirlwind column full of charge in the atmosphere sparkles, and the upper part of it emits lightning sparks. When it passed over the town, it seemed that all the buildings were burning.

From 65438 to 0979, the monthly magazine Reader's Digest in the United States vividly described the serious disaster brought to the United States by the storm of nature when reporting a tragic event that happened that year.

1April 3, 974, what a terrible day! At 3: 50 p.m., the teletypewriter of Louisville weather forecast typed out a report form of dangerous weather pre-evacuation for Kentucky residents: "The news of Tonato storm has been broadcast. The Tonato storm passes through the sea area not far from Hal Ginsburg and 3 nautical miles from Irvy, and then moves northwest at a wind speed of about 50 nautical miles per hour. "

However, this is only a small whirlwind observed at several observation points. The most terrible tornado storm moves along an arc, and it quickly increases its speed when crossing Irvy and attacking Brandenburg. In this quiet town, only a few of the more than 65,438+0,700 residents have heard radio and TV programs.

Some people found black funnel-shaped clouds approaching from a distance, while others were frightened by the thunderous sound. At this point, the Tonato storm is only a few minutes away from them. 16:08 10, the tornado storm violently rushed to the town, destroying almost half of the houses, administrative organs and commercial and trade buildings in the city. It destroys cars like squeezing grapes.

This is one of the Tonato storms that have ravaged hundreds of times in 1 1 states in the southern and midwest of the United States. Its speed increased from 100 nautical miles to 300 nautical miles. The unprecedented Tonato storm swept away 329 people, causing more than 4,000 injuries and more than 24,000 losses to varying degrees, with losses worth about 700 million US dollars.

Gu Yin, a small town in Alabama, was almost completely destroyed, and 23 people died-1% of the residents there. In Monzino, Indiana, Tonato stormed Fleming Lake, breaking the railway bridge into four sections from the reinforced concrete pier and throwing it into the lake about 12 meters away in the air. Each section of this broken railway bridge weighs about 1 15 tons!

Sylvia Heyoumons once described the scene of Tonato storm in the suburb of Hanauer, Indiana: "I found three' funnels' at a height of 15 feet above the ground, roaring and growling. Bell is like a giant coffee grinder. The biggest' funnel' (that is, tornado) smashed an automatic trailer parked not far away, and I hid in a small storage room at home. The storm roared over my head, the house fell down like breathing, and the walls of the storage room swayed inward and outward. "

In another place, a tornado lifted a house and its owner into the air, turned a 360-degree somersault, and then sent them back to the ground intact. Then, the storm came rushing along the river, rolling up the water column, and the uprooted trunk rolled in the water like a giant washing machine stirring clothes.

When the Tonato storm passed through the small town of Belbranch, Indiana, Herbert Alston saw dark clouds outside the window and shouted to his wife, "Go to the bathroom!" " "Alice and four children rushed into the bathroom, and Alston ran to the other side ... A tornado blew off a wall in the bathroom and swept Alston, his wife and children into the air. Alston flew more than 40 feet before landing. At this time, he saw his five-year-old daughter Amy flying over an apple tree 75 feet away from home. ...

In Kosenya, local radio and television stations issued storm warnings to more than 27,000 residents in the town. Only after 15 minutes, the Tonato storm violently rushed to the town of Kesenia. Nearly half of the towns were destroyed or severely damaged, 34 people died and more than 65,438+0,600 people were injured.