Shadowing Practice: Reading Explorer Foundation, Unit-10 Tornado Terror - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Sometimes called twisters, tornadoes are clouds of fast spinning wind that can destroy homes and lives.
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Here are some facts about tornadoes you might not know.
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Tornadoes can travel at speeds of over 170 kilometers per hour.
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They can also be very wide.
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The widest tornado ever recorded near El Reno in Oklahoma was 2.6 miles wide.
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That's wider than Manhattan, New York.
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Scientists have learned a lot about how tornadoes in the US usually form.
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Warm, wet air from the sea, cool air from the north,
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and dry air from the mountains meet to create the perfect conditions for a tornado.
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Nearly three-quarters of the world's tornadoes occur in the United States.
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Most of these occur between May and June in a place called Tornado Alley.
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But tornadoes have been recorded all over the US, and on every continent except Antarctica.
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Tornadoes are very dangerous, and they can form very quickly.
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The average time between a tornado warning and a strike is usually 13 minutes or less,
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people have little time to find a safe place.
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In the US, tornadoes kill 60 people every year.
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But the deadliest tornado in history occurred in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1989.
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It killed around 1,300 people.
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Scientists measure the damage a tornado causes using the EF scale.
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It ranks tornadoes on six different levels, from zero, a heavy wind, to level five, enough wind to pick up a house.
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In order to save lives, we need to understand tornadoes better.
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So, many scientists continue to study them, sometimes risking their own lives to do so.

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