Severe amp; Hazardous Weather Active Learning Exercises - Ed 4 Exercise 19.1 Tornado: Myth or Fact?

Severe & Hazardous Weather  Active Learning Exercises - Ed 4 Exercise 19.1 

Tornado: Myth or Fact? Indicate whether each of the following statements about tornadoes is fact or myth.

1. Tornadoes can be invisible. MYTH FACT

2. Tornadoes have occurred in all 50 states.  MYTH FACT

3. Tornadoes are attracted to mobile home communities.  MYTH FACT

4. Tornadoes always rotate counter‐clockwise in the Northern  MYTH FACT Hemisphere.

5. If a tornado watch has been issued, then this means a tornado  MYTH FACT  has been sighted.

6. Tornadoes cannot hit downtown areas because the buildings  MYTH FACT deflect the airflow.

7. If there is a tornado watch, you should open all the windows  MYTH FACT in your house or apartment.

8. A tornado can contain within its circulation two or more  MYTH FACT smaller vortices called suction vortices.

9. An interior room of a building with no windows is one of the  MYTH FACT safer places to be during a tornado.  

10. When the tornado siren goes off should grab your  MYTH FACT camera and go outside to record the event.

11. If you are driving in a car on the highway and see a tornado  MYTH FACT behind you, one of the worst options is to find the nearest  overpass and hide under it.

12. When the tornado siren goes off, go to the innermost room  MYTH FACT in the lowest level of your house or building.

13. If your area is under a tornado watch the safest course of  MYTH FACT action is to grab your camera phone, jump in the car and  chase it.  

14. If you have no basement, during a tornado seek shelter  MYTH FACT in a ground floor level bathroom, get in the bathtub and  cover yourself with a blanket to protect from flying debris.