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Tornado documents, graphs and maps compiled and sorted by state/territory.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/archive/tornadoes/index.html

A chronologically organized list of links to reports on and photos of individual tornado and other severe weather events.
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Storm News and Archives  This page contains an index to storm chase, severe weather, tornado reports and images of current and past storm events that are organized by year, month and day in reverse chronological order. I plan to make this list as comprehensive...
http://www.k5kj.net/news.htm

Tornadoes, weather watchers, fact sheet statistics for every state, and links to the Disaster Center states pages.
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Tornado Severe Weather, Safety, Current Probabilities, Statistics, Skywarn, Facts, Reports  State bulletin boards for your State tornado reports To See our Current USA Situation Report The Disaster Center's Tornado Risk by State United States Tornadoes By Month and Year 1950 1997 Building a Safe Room Inside Your House Why Talk...
http://www.disastercenter.com/tornado.htm

Electronic museum is an educational look at the tornado. Most of the exhibits are photographs with explanatory text.
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Online Tornado Museum  This electronic museum is meant to be an educational look at the most violent storm on earth for its size, the tornado. The tour is broken down into rooms. Most of the exhibits are photographs with explanatory text. Most recent...
http://members.aol.com/tornadfoto/

A comprehensive collection of links of the best of May 3rd sites. Both on the meteorological and human side.
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 If you want to put this pic on your site, please send e-mail. It's one year since the devastating outbreak. The Weather Signposts presents a collection of links on the web with a touch of humanity on the tragic outbreak....
http://members.tripod.com/~thunder_listener/may3.html

Tornado information and links with an emphasis on Illinois.
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 Links are devoted primarily to pages that specialize in Illinois Related Tornado links. For US tornado info, go to the Tornados USA Page. Central Illinois Tornado Page Tornado tips and Central Illinois Tornado History Illinois Storm chasers If you live...
http://illiniweather.com/pages/tornados.htm

Twisters, tornadoes and Storm photos with educational information.
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Tornado Alley :Tornado and Storm chaser Facts, Pictures and Weather Information  Wilma speeding quickly away from Florida after causing extensive power outages and multiple deaths. October 19th Wilma became 12th hurricane of the season which ties a record and reached Cat 5 status. A pressure of 882 mb was reported on...
http://www.tornadochaser.net/

A comprehensive website on tornadoes with information on how tornadoes form, and what to do when a tornado strikes. Also featured pictures of tornadic damage, information on current tornado research, and an extensive list of links.
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Tornadoes and Tornado Research  Tornado Formation Tornado Safety Tornado Statistics The Fujita Scale Tornado Research Historical Tornadoes Tornado and Other Weather Pictures Weather Bookstore Links About Me Sign Guestbook View Guestbook This site last updated 07-15-05. Joe Furr...
http://www.geocities.com/joefurr2/

Details on the Super Outbreak of Tornadoes that spawned 148 tornadoes, including thirty F4's and six F5's, in one day.
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April 3, 1974 The Tornado Super Outbreak  Read first hand eye witness accounts of the super outbreak and even add your own in our forum! View our Guestbook Sign our Guestbook Join Our e-mail list and I'll notify you whenever I update the web site! Send me...
http://www.april31974.com/

Informational site for Vortek's Site Assessment of Tornado Threat (SATT 3.0) software. Provides the user with a means of quickly and accurately displaying and analyzing tornado data for any portion of the United States, excluding Alaska.
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SATT 3.0 Information  K provides the user with a means of quickly and accurately displaying and analyzing tornado data for any portion of the United States, excluding Alaska. This Windows-based program contains all National Weather Service (NWS) data from 1950 to 2003 and...
http://www.tornadothreat.com/TTMain.htm

Illustrated basics about tornadoes and how they are rated.
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Howstuffworks How Tornadoes Work  Tornadoes are one of those amazing, awesome acts of nature that simply leaves you dumbfounded a huge, swirling, 200-mph beast of a storm that appears to have a mind of its own. You have to actually see one with your...
http://www.howstuffworks.com/tornado.htm

This site has links to news and information about tornados.
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Tornado Links  Tornado books and video here Poster This page will direct you to the latest Tornado news and the best websites about Tornados Check out our Lightning Links! Photos/Pictures of Tornadoes Tornado Poster Shop Tornado Simulation Lycos Picture Gallery Tornados News...
http://www.sirlinksalot.net/tornado.html

Roger Edwards of the Storm Prediction Center presents basic Frequently Asked Questions and the answers about tornadoes.
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The Online Tornado FAQ (by Roger Edwards, SPC)  Background photo courtesy NSSL. Copyrighted photos are used by permission of each photographer. ABOUT THIS FAQ FAQ last updated 21 Oct 5 This list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) has been compiled from questions asked of the author and his...
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/

Pictures of Australian tornadoes and links to reports.
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Tornadoes tornado weather DVD DVDs tours photos photographs pictures video videos tornado movie movies Australian tornado pictures storm chasing waterspouts funnels supercells supercell tornados Australia Severe Weather by Michael Bath and Jimmy Deguara,  An overview of tornadoes and thunderstorms Tornado Project online link to a comprehensive site about tornado stories and information. NOAA: Tornadoes provides links to general information, preparedness guides, and organizations. Tornadoes Nature's Most Violent Storms The Online Tornado FAQ This...
http://www.australiasevereweather.com/tornado.htm

Extreme weather phenomena-tornado was reported in Sargodha region-Pakistan. The synoptic situation and subsequent damages are documented in this report.
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Tornado hits a village near Sargodha-Pakistan. 10 died more than hundreds injured due to flying debries.  T a tornado produced surface winds greater than 65 kts in Chak Misran village near Bhalwal area. This storm was much stronger-appearing on radar compared to a sqall-line of intense storms during late winter season. This paper documents the structure...
http://www.angelfire.com/az3/azt...es/wtrphenomena/chak_misran.html

General Information on tornadoes, which includes safety tips and terminology page.
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Home Page  I would like to dedicate the theme of this site to my favorite weatherman, Bob Gregory, retired from WTHR13 Indianapolis, In. He has been a famous local weather newscaster as far as I can remember. Watching him broadcast weather newscasts...
http://members.tripod.com/greytornado/

Rare photographic collection of waterspouts and home page for GARYK and his unique scenic photography.
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Tahoe Twisters  Please use an updated browser, such as Internet Explorer 4 or 5.0...
http://www.tahoetwisters.com/

Scientific America's in-depth look at tornadoes, including multimedia simulations on how they develop.
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Science Technology at Scientific American.com: Turn! Turn! Turn Scientists unravel the twisted ways of tornadoes  Scientists unravel the twisted ways of tornadoes By Corey S. Powell 1 2 next Tornado Simulations prepared by NCSA's Atmosphere and Oceanic Science group for the IMAX movie Stormchasers. Tornadoes are unpredictable and deadly--witness the set of twisters that tore...
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm...07AD9-70C1-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21

Tornado safety tips from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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FEMA: Tornado Safety Tips Brochure  Advance planning and quick response are the keys to surviving a tornado. BEFORE Conduct tornado drills each tornado season. Designate an area in the home as a shelter, and practice having everyone in the family go there in response to...
http://www.fema.gov/hazards/tornadoes/tornadof.shtm

A climatology of tornadoes for east India and Bangladesh, and the daily prediction of tornadoes are provided. Surface and upper air charts for historical tornado cases for Bangladesh and India are presented.
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Bangladesh and East India Tornado Prediction Site  Lawrenceville in rural southern Virginia. After receiving a Bachelors degree in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia in 1991, I earned a MS degree in Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma in 1997. Currently I am a meteorologist at...
http://www.bangladeshtornadoes.org/

Information about tornadoes from the National Weather Service.
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NWS Publications: Tornadoes  For full color graphic version click here (you need an adobe acrobat reader to view this download a free copy now Tornado! Although tornadoes occur in many parts of the world, these destructive forces of nature are found most frequently...
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/brochures/tornado.shtml

NOAA image of a rare, visible waterspout spotted in the Florida Keys, with explanatory text.
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APOD: 2005 January 20 A Waterspout off the Florida Keys  Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 January 20 A Waterspout off the Florida Keys Credit: Joseph Golden, NOAA Explanation: What's happening over...
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050120.html

A few articles summarizing waterspout formation, location, and safety.
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USATODAY.com Understanding waterspouts  Understanding waterspouts By Chris Cappella, USATODAY.com The sinewy funnel of a waterspout touches the waters of the Gulf of Mexico off Treasure Island, Fla, in July 2001. Click for full size image Waterspouts are simply tornadoes over water. But though...
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tornado/wtspouts.htm