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A 4 page paper that identifies where Tornado Alley is and why it has that nickname. The essay explains what a tornado is and how scientist think it is formed. Some examples of tornadoes are provided. The essay comments on the development of the Great Plains region and how people deal with tornadoes today. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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File: ME12_PG700829.doc
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unusually high number of tornadoes each year: Florida and Tornado Alley (NOAA, 2012). Florida has a lot of tornadoes due to the high incidence of thunderstorms in the state, thousands
every day. Tornado Alley is the nickname given to the southern plains of the central part of the U.S. that experiences an incredibly large number of tornadoes each year. The
actual boundaries of Tornado Alley are always disputed but it generally includes central Texas, northward to northern Iowa, and from central Kansas and Nebraska east to western Ohio (NOAA, 2012).
The states most often associated with Tornado Alley are Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and South Dakota. The inclusion dispute has to do with how the tornadoes are measured. Are they
measured according to frequency, intensity, or events per unit area (NOAA, 2012). In other words, frequency would not consider how strong or intense the tornado was. Intensity would not pay
attention to how many tornadoes there are. This Web site (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/severeweather/tornadoes.html) displays the average annual number of tornadoes by state over two decades, 1991 to 2010. The NOAA ((2012) defines
a tornado as part of a severe convection storm. The NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory (2012) states that climatologists do not really know how tornadoes are formed. The deadliest ones
occur from supercells, which are rotating thunderstorms that have a well-defined radar circulation that is called a mesocyclone (Gibson, 2010; NOAA, 2012). Once the mesocyclone is started, differences in temperature
can lead to a tornado. The middle latitudes between about 30 degrees to 50 degrees North or South offer the most favorable conditions for a tornado because this is where
cold, polar air comes against subtropical air, which can generate convection precipitation that forms along the collision boundaries (NOAA, 2012). The Great Plains is a huge expanse of land in
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