Tornadoes - Pickles and School Visits
Meteorologist Josh Fitzpatrick had a long day of traveling locally visiting a couple schools.
One of my favorite things to do besides predicting the weather for our huge three state area is actually getting out, traveling and visiting the folks in our region! The best way to do that for me is with school visits. I try to get to as many as I can this time of year.
On Monday, March 29th I visited Mrs. Herbert's fourth grade class at Meadows Elementary School in Huntington. Below is a group photo of us.
What a great group of students! I want to thank Marshall student teacher Courtney Porter for inviting me. We talked all about earthquakes, tsunami's, hurricanes, snowstorms, flooding, thunderstorms and tornadoes.
I explained to them how we're entering the severe weather season. Where a bright sunshiny day can quickly turn stormy. Here's a list of tornado facts.
A tornado is a dark funnel-shaped cloud made up of violently rotating winds that can reach speeds of up to 300 m.p.h. The diameter of a tornado can vary between a few feet and a mile, and its track can extend from less than a mile to several hundred miles. Tornadoes generally travel in a northeast direction (depending on the prevailing winds) at speeds ranging from 20-60 m.p.h.
What Causes a Tornado?
Tornadoes are most often spawned by giant thunderstorms known as "supercells." These powerful, highly organized storms form when warm, moist air along the ground rushes upward, meeting cooler, drier air. As the rising warm air cools, the moisture it carries condenses, forming a massive thundercloud, sometimes growing to as much as 50,000 ft. in height. Variable winds at different levels of the atmosphere feed the updraft and cause the formation of the tornado's characteristic funnel shape.
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