Severe Weather Awareness Week 2021: Tornadoes : The Alabama Weather Blog
Scott Martin | February 24, 2021 @ 10:30 am Living in Central Alabama, you really need no introduction to tornadoes. A tornado is a violently rotating column of air usually descending from thunderstorms that makes contact with the ground. Wind speeds with a tornado can be as weak as 65 MPH but can reach upwards of 200 MPH and beyond. The fastest wind speed ever recorded in a tornado was 318 MPH, one that hit Moore Oklahoma back in 1999. Even though tornadoes can develop during any time of ...
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