A tornado is a funnel of wind and debris that travel from 25 mph to 50 mph. Major tornadoes come from huge cumulus clouds. In the spring the clashing of hot and cold air results in tornado activity. Although it is rare every state has reported a tornado. There must be an adequate supply of water to feed the storm, the most damaging tornado form from violent thunderstoms called super cells. Scientist's call tornadoes cyclone, cyclone is a Greek word for circle. Cyclones spin counter clock ways in the Northern Hemisphere. On rare occasion the winds whirl the opposite of that of a cyclone. The tornado gets it shapes from a smash up between two air masses, coming at each other from different directions.

There is three stages of a thunderstorm

1. In the Cumulus stage the clouds updrafting and develops in to a cumulus,
2. In this stage there is up and down drafts are side by side,
3. In the shrinking stage there are down drafts.

There is five stages of a tornado the dust whirl

1. The organization
2. The mature
3. The shrinking
4. The decaying