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A tornado photographed 35 km/22 mi southwest of Howard, eastern South Dakota, on 28 August 1884. This is the oldest known photograph of a tornado. In terms of annual numbers of tornadoes, only Australia can compete with the USA.

Extremely violent revolving storm with swirling, funnel-shaped clouds, caused by a rising column of warm air propelled by strong wind.

A series of tornadoes killed 47 people, destroyed 2,000 homes, and caused $500 million worth of damage in Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas in May 1999.

A tornado can rise to a great height, but with a diameter of only a few hundred yards or less. Tornadoes move with wind speeds of 160-480 kph/100-300 mph, destroying everything in their path. They are common in the central USA and Australia.
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The controllers say the radios allow them to monitor tornado funnel clouds, but the FAA says controllers already have access to a "large amount" of weather information.
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They cease to be so only when societal pressure (husbands, mothers, best friends, the media) causes them to question the readouts, to deny the evidence of a serious storm, to disregard the 200 mph winds and circling funnel clouds.
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So far this week, two funnel clouds have been spotted in the southern Willamette Valley northeast of Eugene - one Monday and another Wednesday - but neither became a full-fledged tornado, and officials of the National Weather Service say it's not an uncommon weather phenomenon this time of year.
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