Tornado Trivia

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• Roughly, how many tornadoes hit the U.S. yearly?

  12 120 1200 12000

• Average distance a tornado travels?

  550 feet 3.5 miles 10 miles 30 miles

• In the Northern Hemisphere, most tornadoes rotate:

  left to right right to left varies by season nobody knows

• What's the safest place to be during a tornado?

  your car a stadium the basement 2nd floor

• Scale used to estimate winds by tornado damage:

  Saffir-Simpson Scale Storm Index Enhanced Fujita Scale

• Tornado forecasting was banned from official forecasts before 1950.

  True False

• Record month for most tornadoes since modern record keeping began:

  May, 1950 June, 1965 July, 1971 April, 2011

• 1996 movie that featured Helen Hunt as a storm chaser researching tornadoes?

  MegaStorm Twister In Harm's Way Tornado!

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